Company and Securities Law Journal update: Vol 37 Pt 1
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Agribusiness MIS Failures: Policy Lessons from the Quintis Failure” – Kevin Davis and Henry Herkes; “Director Restriction: An Alternative to Disqualification for Corporate Insolvency” – Michelle Welsh and Helen Anderson; Hong Kong, China and South East Asia – Say Goo: “Unfair Prejudice and Just and Equitable Winding Up in Hong Kong” – Professor Say H Goo and Charles KN Lam; Takeovers and Public Securities – Simon McKeon and Jonathan Farrer: “New Cross-Border M&A Transactions: Schemes of Arrangement for Foreign Incorporated Companies in Australia” – Anthony Papamatheos; Company Law – Edmund Finnane: “Removal of Directors of Public Companies by Shareholders: When Do Companies Contract Out of the Corporations Act?” – Rosemary Teele Langford and Ian Ramsay; and New Zealand and South Pacific – Gordon R Walker: “Compromises with Creditors – New Zealand Supreme Court Divided on Whether Class Composition Includes Consideration of Creditors’ Economic Interests” – Victoria Stace.
Company and Securities Law Journal update: Vol 36 Pt 2
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Directors’ Duties to Respect Human Rights in Offshore Operations and Supply Chains: An Emerging Paradigm” – Riana Cermak; and “Consumer Protection and Life Insurance Claims” – Andrew J Serpell. This issue also includes the following sections: Editorial; Corporate Insolvency – Helen Anderson: “Harmful Phoenix Activity and Disqualification from Managing Corporations: An Unenforceable Regime?” – Jasper Hedges, Helen Anderson, Ian Ramsay and Michelle Welsh; and New Zealand – Gordon R Walker: “McIntosh v Fisk [2017] NZSC 78: New Zealand’s Largest Ponzi Scheme and the Liquidator’s Clawback Powers: The Supreme Court Decision” – Trish Keeper.
Company and Securities Law Journal update: Vol 35 Pt 4
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Litigation Funding and Liquidators – The New Zealand Court of Appeal Takes a Permissive Approach” – Victoria Stace; “Who Bears the Burden for Business Losses: To What Extent Are Liability Issues of Business Structures Taught in Australian Accounting Degrees?” – Dale Boccabella and Dr Brett Freudenberg; “Whistleblowing Reforms: A Critical Analysis of the Current Law and the New “Bells and Whistles” Proposed” – Jim Apollo Mathiopoulos, Katrina Hogan and Jean Jacques du Plessis; Corporate Insolvency – Helen Anderson: “No “Silver Bullet”: A Multifaceted Approach to Curbing Harmful Phoenix Activity” – by Jasper Hedges, Helen Anderson, Ian Ramsay and Michelle Welsh.
Company and Securities Law Journal update: Vol 35 Pt 3
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Keeping Good Company in the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy? An Evaluation of Climate Risk Disclosure Practices in Australia” – Anita Foerster, Jacqueline Peel, Hari Osofsky and Brett McDonnell; “Illegal Phoenix Activity: Is a ‘Phoenix Prohibition’ the Solution?” – Helen Anderson, Jasper Hedges, Ian Ramsay and Michelle Welsh; Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility – Jean du Plessis: “Recent Developments in Corporate Liability for Insider Trading: ASIC v Hochtief AG” – Juliette Overland.
Insolvency Law Journal update: Vol 24 Pt 3
The latest Part of the Insolvency Law Journal includes the following articles: “An empirical study of Australian judicial decisions relating to insolvency practitioner remuneration” – Stacey Steele, Vivien Chen and Ian Ramsay; and “Receivers and employees: An analysis of receivership and its effects on employee contracts and entitlements” – Lewis Gentry and Christopher Symes; and the following section notes: Recent Developments: “At the coalface of corporate insolvency and Phoenix activity: A Survey of ARITA and AICM Members” – Helen Anderson, Jasper Hedges, Ian Ramsay and Michelle Welsh; “Personal and corporate insolvency doing the same thing for the business end of town: why so complicated?” – David Morrison; and Report from New Zealand: “Insolvency practitioners in the spotlight” – Lynne Taylor.
Insolvency Law Journal update: Vol 24 Pt 2
The latest Part of the Insolvency Law Journal includes the following articles: “Illegal phoenix activity: Quantifying its incidence and cost” – Helen Anderson, Ian Ramsay and Michelle Welsh; “Unfair preferences: Putting an end to the peak indebtedness ‘rule’” – Stephen Russell and Sean Russell; and “The Australian Taxation Office – what role does it play in anti-phoenix activity?” – Colin Anderson, Jennifer Dickfos and Catherine Brown. It also contains and Editorial and the following section notes: Recent Developments: “The appointment of voluntary administrators, their conduct, and aspects of insolvency” – Dr David Morrison; Report from New Zealand: “Voidable transactions: recent developments” – Lynne Taylor; and a Book Review: “Cross-border Insolvency Law” – Stewart Maiden.
Company and Securities Law Journal update: September 2015
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following content: “Equity crowdfunding in Australia: A regulatory balancing act” – Tim Ancev; “Commercial litigation under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth): Part I” – Matthew Broderick, Dr David Morrison and Emma Ramage; “Section 1322 as a response to the complexity of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)” – Hui Xian Chia and Ian Ramsay; “Aspects of the law relating to contested elections of directors” – Rodd Levy; “Is a charitable donation by an insolvent company an uncommercial transaction under s 588FB of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)?” – Peter Sise; Corporate Insolvency: “The productivity commission, corporate insolvency and phoenix companies” – Helen Anderson, Ann O’Connell, Ian Ramsay, Michelle Welsh and Hannah Withers