Corporate and M&A

In June 2015, whilst the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) was before the Senate Estimates Committee, the ASIC Chairman, Greg Medcraft, raised the idea of making companies liable under new civil penalty provisions for circumstances where an employee commits an offence if ASIC believes that the company’s culture led to the employee breaking the law.

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