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Allens acts for Charter Hall on Folkestone acquisition
News 24 Aug 2018

      Allens has advised Charter Hall Group (Charter Hall) on its proposed acquisition of Folkestone Limited (Folkestone). The acquisition, structured as a scheme of arrangement, is valued at $205 ...

Allens advises senior financiers on Ventura Bus Company refinancing
News 07 May 2018

Allens has advised a syndicate of senior lenders on the refinancing of Ventura Bus Company's existing debt facilities, which included senior debt, mezzanine debt and third ranking notes. The ...

Allens advises on innovative financing for Melbourne roads upgrade
News 21 Dec 2017

Allens has advised the Netflow consortium on an innovative financing arrangement for its A$1.8 billion Western Roads Upgrade public-private partnership (PPP). The financing of the Western Roads ...

Registered schemes' constitution
Insight 03 Jun 2016

ASIC has said it will grant relief to assist responsible entities RE of registered schemes to make changes to their constitutions to qualify for the new attribution managed investment trust or AMIT regime without holding a unitholders meeting Partner Marc Kemp and Law Graduate Antonia Ross review ...

Bitter Harvest yields fertile ground for MIS reform
Insight 05 Apr 2016

Last month the Senate Economics References Committee handed down its long-awaited report on the structure and development of agribusiness-managed investment schemes The Committees inquiry into agribusiness schemes had been instigated in June 2014 by Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson While there had ...

Value capture and getting smart
Insight 30 Jun 2016

The Australian Government has identified value capture and innovative financing as key elements of its Smart Cities Plan The move will have significant implications for traditional project finance By Paul Kenny Sector Leader Government and Phillip Cornwell Project Finance Consultant at Allens ...

Spotting hurdles in the race to market Australian funds in Asia
Insight 05 Apr 2016

The introduction of the Asia Region Funds Passport ARFP has been in the works for some time The ARFP was one of the recommendations coming out of the 2009 Johnson Report and aims to provide a basis for cross-border marketing of managed funds in the Asia region While there has been a tendency to ...

Important AMIT regime developments
Insight 24 Jun 2016

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has granted relief to assist responsible entities of registered schemes to make changes to their constitutions to qualify for the new attribution managed investment trust regime without holding a members meeting In addition and in response to ...

Coming this spring: ACCC to monitor large merchants' payment surcharges
Insight 02 Jun 2016

The Reserve Bank has now released a Standard which sets out what payment surcharges will be permitted for the purposes of the new Part IVC of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 Cth The aim of the Standard is to improve competition and efficiency by providing to consumers price signals associated ...

New corporate collective investment vehicle exposure draft legislation released
Insight 25 Aug 2017

The Federal Government today released exposure draft legislation for the new corporate collective investment vehicle one of the two forms of collective investment vehicle that it pledged to develop as part of the 2016-2017 budget Partners Marc Kemp and Charles Armitage and Senior Overseas ...

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