{"id":4210,"date":"2012-10-10T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T05:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2012-10-10T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T05:06:30","slug":"company-and-securities-law-journal-update-october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2012\/10\/10\/company-and-securities-law-journal-update-october-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Company and Securities Law Journal update: October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest issue of the Company and Securities Law Journal <\/em>(Volume 30 Part 7) contains the following material:<\/p>\n

EDITORIAL<\/a><\/p>\n

Articles<\/h3>\n

Testing the limits of highly dilutive rights issues<\/a> <\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c <\/em>Emma Armson<\/p>\n

This article examines the takeover policy considerations arising where a rights issue involves a high ratio of shares being issued compared to the number of existing shares. Such highly dilutive rights issues exacerbate the usual effect on control because shareholders need to purchase a large number of shares relative to their current holding to maintain their proportionate interest, and any shortfall will lead to an increase in the relative voting power of those shareholders who exercise their rights. This raises a clear conflict between the policy underlying the takeover provisions and the ability to raise funds subject to the disclosure requirements in the Corporations Act 2001 <\/em>(Cth). These competing considerations are taken into account by the Takeovers Panel when deciding whether unacceptable circumstances exist in relation to the rights issue. The article analyses the recent Panel decisions relating to highly dilutive rights issues in Re Multiplex Prime Property Fund 03 <\/em>(2009) 76 ACSR 1 and Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd 02 <\/em>[2011] ATP 16, in the context of intervening changes to the Panel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guidance Note 17: Rights Issues <\/em>and earlier Panel decisions in relation to such issues. It concludes with observations concerning the elements that have been significant in determining the limits of what is acceptable.<\/p>\n

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Community interest and stakeholders aplenty, but to whom are the duties owed? Directors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 duties in the not-for-profit arena of the Australian Football League Ltd<\/a> <\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c <\/em>James Paterson<\/p>\n

The Australian Football League Ltd consistently acknowledges that its key stakeholders are broader than just its member clubs, often making reference to groups such as supporters, club members, media and corporate partners, and various levels of government. Given the AFL Ltd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public recognition of those groups, this article considers the question: does a different legal duty apply to directors of not-for-profit organisations, such that the interests of persons other than shareholders must be considered? In reviewing the question, the article outlines the parties to whom the AFL Ltd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s board of commissioners owe legal obligations under equitable, fiduciary and statutory directors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 duties, and considers those duties in light of the AFL Ltd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s objectives stated in its constituent documents. The article highlights additional legal duties imposed on directors of not-for-profit sporting organisations that seek concessional tax treatment, as well as reviewing the likely impact of the soon-to-be introduced national regulator, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission, on the obligations owed by directors of entities such as the AFL Ltd.<\/p>\n

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Independent directors in China and India: A comparative assessment<\/a> <\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c <\/em>Helen Wei Hu and On Kit Tam<\/p>\n

As the debate on convergence and divergence in corporate governance has received considerable research interest, this study aims to explore whether the recently developed independent director systems in China and India could be characterised as convergent or divergent. More importantly, do the independent directors in these two jurisdictions possess the core governance attributes regarded as essential for performing their governance roles effectively? Based on corporate governance guidelines and codes worldwide, four core attributes are identified as influencing the capacity of independent directors to successfully perform their role. A means test (t-test) is used to compare the attributes of independent directors in the largest Chinese and Indian companies. Additionally, these companies are benchmarked against the largest companies in Hong Kong, as they are perceived to have achieved better governance efficiency. Analyses show that while the regulatory development of corporate governance in China and India has been improved, there are still clear distinctions in the core attributes of Chinese and Indian independent directors.<\/p>\n

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For the pdf version of the table of contents, click here: C&SLJ Vol 30 Pt 7 Contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes three interesting articles. The first is by Emma Armson and examines the takeover policy considerations arising where a rights issue involves a high ratio of shares being issued compared to the number of existing shares. The second comes from James Paterson and outlines the parties to whom the AFL Ltd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s board of commissioners owe legal obligations under equitable, fiduciary and statutory directors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 duties, and considers those duties in light of the AFL Ltd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s objectives stated in its constituent documents. The final article is by Helen Wei Hu and On Kit Tam and aims to explore whether the recently developed independent director systems in China and India could be characterised as convergent or divergent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,39],"tags":[2375,259,950,2572,2573,829,2574,2575,2355,2576,2577,2578,2579,2580],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-and-securities-law-journal","category-update-summaries","tag-afl","tag-cslj","tag-china","tag-community-interest","tag-dilutive-rights","tag-directors-duties","tag-emma-armson","tag-helen-wei-hu","tag-independent-directors","tag-india","tag-james-paterson","tag-not-for0profit-organisations","tag-on-kit-tam","tag-takeover-polic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}