Corporations

China is toughening its stance on insider trading with an expanded scope for its Securities Law and stiffer penalties.

Practical Law Australia In-house with assistance from Thomson Reuters, has published a new Practice note, which outlines how metrics can be used by an in-house legal department.

Practical Law Australia In-house has published two new Toolkits, focusing on legal department operations and confidentiality.

ESG is a hot topic. To support the fight against climate change, forward thinking borrowers and lenders should consider including climate-aligned clauses in their finance documents.

Practical Law Corporate has published three new practice note to its public mergers and acquisitions topic.

Practical Law Corporate has published four new documents to its public mergers and acquisitions topic.

Electronic document execution is here to stay and Practical Law has all the tools subscribers need to leverage the new execution options quickly and confidently.

Corporate collective investment vehicles are aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the Australia funds management sector for foreign investors.

Practical Law Commercial has released two brand new resources: a legal update on the proposed reforms to the unfair contract terms regime introduced in Parliament on 9 February 2022 and a legislation tracker which monitors key developments in the proposed legislation.

Shareholders, litigation funders and class actions promoters are set to benefit from the long-awaited High Court decision in litigation involving the former mining company Arrium Ltd.

British-based polluters won’t escape accountability behind the corporate veil, declares the UK Supreme Court in two recent decisions.

Ideally, changes introduced in Corps Act 2001, Pt 5.3 will assist small businesses to quickly restructure and survive the economic impact of COVID-19. If not possible, they will be able to wind up faster and more efficiently.