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Chinese investment in Australian mining assets - legal considerations

  • Norton Rose Australia
  • -
  • Australia, China
  • -
  • March 19 2013

Australia is China’s number one destination for outbound investment. Between late 2006 and June 2012, China invested approximately US$45.1 billion in

Australia in the Asian century

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • Asia-Pacific, Australia
  • -
  • December 18 2012

The Australian Government recently released the “Australia in the Asian Century White Paper” (White Paper

Takeovers Panel returns to costs orders

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 6 2012

The Takeovers Panel has made costs orders in two recent decisions, Minemakers Limited 2012 ATP 8 and Austock Group Limited 2012 ATP 12

Policy changes to foreign investment in Australian oil and gas projects

  • Norton Rose Australia
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • August 21 2012

Earlier this year the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) changed its policy treatment in respect of Australian petroleum titles

Do litigation funders need an AFS licence?

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 13 2012

The NSW Court of Appeal has delivered the most recent challenge to the Australian litigation funding industry, finding that a funding agreement was unenforceable on the basis that the litigation funder was dealing in a ‘financial product’ without an Australian Financial Services licence

Corporate: transaction liability insurance for negotiated M&Atransactions

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 13 2012

Warranty and indemnity insurance continues to be an increasingly common instrument used by merger parties to manage deal risk in Australian M&A transactions

Proposed directors’ liability reforms

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • February 7 2012

On 27 January 2012, David Bradbury (the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer) released for public consultation the first tranche of proposed amendments to Commonwealth legislation to implement principles approved by the Council of Australian Governments to harmonise derivative liability for corporate fault across Australian jurisdictions

Mergers and acquisitions - amendments to “market” to address creeping acquisitions

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • December 8 2011

The Competition and Consumer Act 2010 has again been amended with Federal Parliament passing changes which will affect the assessment of mergers and acquisitions under section 50

Buying an insolvent business

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 5 2011

Everyone loves a bargain - accordingly, there is a lot of interest when liquidators and other insolvency practitioners put a business up for sale

Australian private M&A trends in a record-breaking year for Australian M&A activity

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 7 2011

Although 2010 commenced with somewhat lacklustre M&A activity, with activity in the June 2010 quarter being lower than in the December 2009 quarter, a late flurry of transactions in the second half of 2010 resulted in a record-breaking year in which Australian M&A exceeded US$100 billion for the first time

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