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Allens acts for Allianz on Territory Insurance Office acquisition
Allens has advised insurance company Allianz Australia on its purchase of the Northern Territory Government's general insurance business. Allianz Australia has entered into an agreement with the ...
Allens acts on big deal for smallgoods
Allens has advised food processing company JBS Australia Pty Limited on its $1.45 billion purchase of leading Australian smallgoods manufacturer Primo Foods. The acquisition is an important strateg ...
Allens acts for Federation Centres on $11 billion merger
Allens is acting for Federation Centres in its proposed merger with fellow real estate investment trust Novion Property Group. Minter Ellison is also acting for Federation Centres. The proposed ...
Allens acts for DUET Group on equity raising
Allens has advised DUET Group on its $397 million fully underwritten, non-renounceable pro rata entitlement offer. The equity raising for DUET Group, an ASX-listed owner of energy utility assets in ...
Allens tops syndicated loans tables
Allens has been ranked the number one legal adviser in the Asia-Pacific for syndicated loans in 2014, according to the latest Bloomberg league tables. Across the Bloomberg Asia-Pacific (excluding ...
Would you like best interests with that? Conflicted remuneration, American style
Last month we were fortunate enough to host Barney Frank co-architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010 to discuss financial regulation reform Coincidentally a couple of weeks later we were treated to a presentation on US financial regulation reforms by a US ...
Dodd Frank - promoting financial stability and other purposes
The Dodd Frank Act is a bit like the US financial system it is trying to regulate - vast complex and hard to wade through It creates a bunch of new regulators on top of what was already a pretty solid cast and gives them wide-ranging powers They can not only set capital and liquidity requirements ...
Withholding tax to capture exit profits
Legislation introduced into Parliament will impose a 10 per cent non-final withholding tax on proceeds paid to foreign parties to acquire direct or indirect interests in Australian real property and mining rights from 1 July 2016 Partner Martin Fry and Lawyer David Lewis discuss the proposed law ...
Crowd-sourced equity funding
The Government has finally begun the process of implementing its policy on crowd-sourced equity funding CSEF by introducing a Bill and releasing draft exposure regulations late last year which envisage the establishment of a CSEF regime in Australia The Bill has been referred to the Senate Economics ...
Financial advice and fees - ASIC reports
ASIC released its report Financial advice Fees for no service today It says that there has been a systemic failure by advice licensees within some of the major banks and AMP to provide ongoing advice in return for ongoing fees The report relates chiefly to arrangements between licensees and clients ...