Specialty Group: Corporate and M&A

A seller does not regularly satisfy its duty of disclosure to the buyer simply by "somehow" posting documents about the fact requiring disclosure in an electronic data room - Federal Court of Justice ruling of 15.09.2023 ...

Eight years after ANZ placed circa $750 million in shares to the underwriters of its $2.5 billion equity capital raising (Placement), the Federal Court of Australia (Court) has held that ANZ should have immediately discl ...

From 9 November 2023 a new penalty regime and legal consequences will apply to unfair terms in standard form contracts with small businesses and consumers. Laws regulating the use of unfair contract terms already exist, ...

The Australian Government is consulting on proposed reforms to the Australian Consumer Law to address certain unfair trading practices not presently regulated by legislation. Background Some unfair trading practices, a ...