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Allens tops mid-year M&A league tables
Allens ranked first for deal value in the announced Australasian M&A league tables in both the Mergermarket and Bloomberg rankings, and second in the Refinitiv rankings. The firm also topped ...
Allens advises IMDEX on financing for Devico acquisition
Devico is a leading provider of advanced sensors and directional drilling technologies. The acquisition expands IMDEX's technology capability and geographical reach, and reinforces its position as ...
Allens advises Blackstone on A$1.5 billion sale of La Trobe Financial to Brookfield
Founded by the O'Neill family, La Trobe Financial is a leading Australian non-bank lender and asset manager with more than A$13 billion in assets under management. La Trobe manages fixed income ...
Allens advises on transformational deal to create one of the world's largest listed diamond companies
On completion of this transformational cross-border deal, Burgundy will become the largest ASX-listed diamond company and one of the largest listed diamond companies globally. Burgundy will conduct ...
A look at strategies to secure support from—and transact with—major target shareholders in takeover scenarios
In this Insight we explore some strategies that would-be-bidders can employ to shore up pre-bid support from major shareholders, before considering structures that can be used to offer differential consideration to them when implementing the control transaction itself. ...
Five questions on the minds of future-focused in-house counsel
In this Insight, we explore what’s front of mind for innovative legal professionals and share some practical examples of what leading legal functions are doing to improve legal service delivery in their organisations. ...
Federal Court clears path for the OAIC to pursue its privacy proceedings against Facebook
A full bench of the Federal Court has confirmed an earlier ruling that there was a prima facie case Facebook Inc (now Meta Platforms Inc) 'carries on a business' and collects personal information in Australia. With this decision, the Australian Information Commissioner can now proceed with the landmark case against Facebook Inc and Facebook Ireland Ltd in relation to a number of alleged breaches of the Australian Privacy Principles. ...
A tale of two OAIC investigations – privacy implications for the use of facial recognition technology
Determinations issued by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) following two recent investigations against 7-Eleven and Clearview AI, reinforce a global trend of growing regulatory scrutiny of the use of facial recognition technology by private sector organisations, and follows Facebook's recent decision to shut down its facial recognition system. ...
Linklaters Insights: Booming foreign investment in data centres faces regulatory heat
Data centres, the warehouses underpinning the digital aspects of our working and home lives, have become red hot assets, with investors piling into the sector – and regulators in the West signalling their readiness to closely scrutinise foreign investment (FI). ...
A global snapshot of data breach class actions
While we are yet to see a successful data breach class action in Australia, data breach class actions have become all too real for many major companies overseas ...