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Allens advises Redbubble on capital raising to fund TeePublic acquisition
Allens has advised ASX-listed Redbubble Limited on its A$60 million equity raising to fund its acquisition of TeePublic for US$41 million (A$57.7 million). Redbubble is a leading global online ...
A new dawn for crowd sourced equity funding?
CAMAC and the FSI have acknowledged that the current Australian regulatory settings are hostile to crowd sourced equity funding A recently released Treasury Discussion Paper has considered three options for law reform and what each might mean for the development of this innovative form of capital ...
Australia's new Multinational Anti-avoidance Law moves ahead of OECD consensus
The Government has announced as part of the Budget that it will introduce a new multinational anti-avoidance law into Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 The new law will apply to tax benefits obtained on or after 1 January 2016 It is aimed at 30 identified multinationals with Australian ...
Fact sheet: Growing your team: working with interns in your startup
Many startups look to grow their team by engaging interns work experience students and other unpaid workers ...
Government rejigs electronic health records system with opt-out approach
The Federal Governments electronic health records system may have a new lease on life following the introduction of a new Bill that attempts to improve the systems effectiveness with key changes such as the transition to an opt-out approach Partner Ian McGill Senior Associate Phil OSullivan and ...
Full Court comes down hard on business method patent, but software remains patentable
In an eagerly awaited appeal decision in emRPL Central v The Commissioner of Patentsem the Full Federal Court has decided that the evidence-gathering method the subject of RPL Centrals innovation patent was a mere scheme abstract idea or business method that did not constitute patentable subject ...
Media ownership reform back in the spotlight
The Federal Government has introduced a narrow package of media ownership reform which if enacted will reduce the restrictions imposed by the Broadcasting Services Act on the ownership of media assets across platforms and market ...
Allens Accelerate: Preparing for investment
As a startup looking to raise capital youll most likely spend a fair bit of time thinking about your pitch to potential investors and if youre lucky the terms of any investment ...
Predictive coding endorsed again by English High Court
In its second decision on predictive coding this year the English High Court has again accepted the use of this innovative technology in discovery this time in a contested application Partner Duncan Travis Managing Associate Kate Austin and Law Graduate Yi-Ling Ng examine the case and its ...
E-signature - a case study, but not a test case
A recent New South Wales Court of Appeal decision concerned a guarantee purportedly signed by e-signature without the guarantors knowledge It is an interesting case-study though the decision is really about ostensible authority and ratification Senior Finance Counsel Diccon Loxton considers its ...