31/07/2016
Welcome to the latest update from Gilbert + Tobin's Corporate Advisory team. The update provides a summary of key recent legal developments, particularly relevant to in-house counsel.
In this issue, you will find:
- Legislation and proposed legislation
- New foreign resident withholding tax regime now applies
- New foreign resident withholding tax regime now applies
- ASIC
- ASIC does its due diligence on IPOs
- ASIC simplifies company auditor registration
- ASIC releases results of its review of 31 December 2015 financial reports and focus areas for 30 June 2016 financial reports
- ASX
- Continuous disclosure and naming parties to transactions
- Continuous disclosure and naming parties to transactions
- Other G+T publications
- Update on voting by responsible entities and their associates
- Blockchain: the importance of creating new governance
- @Work – New rates and thresholds from 1 July 2016
- Cases
- Full Court of the Federal Court re-affirms limits on the powers of shareholders in general meeting: Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility v Commonwealth Bank of Australia [2016] FCAFC 80
- Directors’ conflicts of interest – when is more than disclosure of the conflict and abstention from deliberations required?: Duncan v Independent Commission Against Corruption [2016] NSWCA 143
- The High Court backs the ANZ on bank fees: Paciocco v Australian and New Zealand Banking Group Limited [2016] HCA 28
- A promise to “be looked after at renewal time” held to be too uncertain to be enforceable: Crown Melbourne Limited v Cosmopolitan Hotel (Vic) Pty Ltd [2016] HCA 26
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