
Company and Securities Law Journal update: Vol 38 Pt 1
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Worker Co-operatives and Australian Law” – William Hall; “Australian Investor Stewardship and Global Themes in Stewardship Regulation” – Natania Locke; and “Out with the Old, in with the Askew? The Recent Crowd-sourced Equity Funding Reform Fails to Meet Expectations” – Hareesh Makam. This issue also includes the following sections: Editorial; and Takeovers and Public Securities: “Money Lending Exceptions for Takeover Provisions” – Emma Armson.

Company and Securities Law Journal update: Vol 37 Pt 2
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons for Australia” – Adefolake Adeyeye; “Company Disclosure of Climate-Related Reputation Risks” – Andrew Belyea-Tate; “Australia’s Modern Slavery Act: Towards Meaningful Compliance” – Justine Nolan and Nana Frishling; and “A Critical Analysis of the Rationales and Continuing Merit of the Unfair Preference and Uncommercial Transaction Provisions in Pt 5.7B of the Corporations Act 2001” – William John Potts.
This issue also includes the following sections: Editorial; Takeovers and Public Securities: “Class Divide: Different Forms of Scheme Consideration” – Oren Bigos and James Claridge; Current Developments – Legal and Administrative: “Funding of Class Actions in Australia: Proposed Reforms” – Damian Grave, Gregg Rowan and Maura McIntosh; Directors’ Duties: “The Reach of Constitutional Conflicts Provisions: How do Companies Contract out of the General Law Duties?” – Rosemary Teele Langford and Ian Ramsay.
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 35 Pt 6
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Speed in Decision-making: An Assessment of the Australian Takeovers Panel” – Emma Armson; “Dick Smith Inventories: The Evidence of Accounting Irregularities” – Jeffrey Knapp and Per Tronnes; Shareholders’ Remedies: “Clarification Regarding Past Oppression – Exton v Extons Pty Ltd” – Dr Elizabeth Boros; Takeovers and Public Securities: “Statements Of Intention In Takeovers – ASIC Reconsidering The Policy Settings?” – Hal Lloyd.
Company and Securities Law Journal update: June 2016
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Sunlight as the disinfectant for phoenix activity” – Helen Anderson; “Embracing Myanmar’s future: Reforming the 100-year-old Companies Act” – Dr Kath Hall, Dr Daw Than Nwe and Dr Khin Khin Oo; and “The controversy continues: The case for regulatory reform on members’ resolutions in Australia” – Ben Jacobsen and Howard Pender. This issue also includes the following sections: Company Law – Professor Robert Baxt AO: “The possible role of shadow directors in the collapse of Queensland Nickel Pty Ltd”; Takeovers and Public Securities – James Philips and Costas Condoleon: “Adjusting bid price for the value of franking credits in hostile bids”; Corporate Insolvency – Helen Anderson: “Labor’s policy to deal with phoenix activity affecting employees”; and Securities Industry and Managed Investments – Pamela Hanrahan: “Revisiting responsible entity directors’ liability to scheme members”.
Company and Securities Law Journal update: August 2015
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Significant judicial guidance on the application of the continuous disclosure obligations” – Danielle McFarlane; “Delegation and reliance by Australian company directors” – Angela Gibbs and Jon Webster; “Insider trading, general deterrence and the penalties for corporate crime” – Juliette Overland; and the following sections: Overseas Note: Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia: “Confucianism and its theoretical application to the corporate world in China” – Charles KN Lam and Say Goo; and Takeovers and Public Securities: “Takeover dispute resolution in Australia and the United States – Takeovers panel or courts?” – Ian Ramsay.
Company and Securities Law Journal update: November 2013
The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes the following articles: “Officers’ liability for mandatory corporate disclosure: Two paths, two destinations?” – Tim Bednall and Pamela Hanrahan and “Directors’ statutory and general law accessory liability for corporate wrongdoing” – Justice Ashley Black. There is also a Takeovers and Public Securities section note: “Lock up devices in recapitalisation proposals: Lessons from Billabong” – Alberto Colla.
Company and Securities Law Journal update: August 2013
The August 2013 Part of C&SLJ includes the following articles: “Directors’ fiduciary duties and oppression in closely-held corporations” – Ryan J Turner; “A year with the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth): The Personal Property Securities Register, amendment demands and judicial proceedings” – Nicholas Mirzai; and “Equitable remedies for participation in a breach of directors’ fiduciary duties: The mega-litigation in Bell v Westpac” – Dan Butler. Also included are the following sections: Current Developments: Legal and Administrative, Directors’ Duties and Corporate Governance, Takeovers and Public Securities,
Company and Securities Law Journal update: March 2013
The latest Part of C&SLJ includes the following material: “Directors’ duties to creditors: Walker v Wimborne revisited” – Rebecca Maslen-Stannage; “Crowd funding: Regulating the new phenomenon” – Terence W Wong; Takeovers and Public Securities: “The rise of contingent value rights in Australian M&A transactions” – Alex Brown and Sarah Duerdoth; Current Developments – Legal and Administrative: “The Co-operatives National Law: A new opportunity for co-operative social enterprise in Australia? Part II” – Daniel Wiseman; and Overseas Notes (HK, Singapore and Malaysia): “Regulating insider dealing in Hong Kong: Challenges and the road ahead for enforcement and prosecution” – Charles KN Lam and SH Goo.