due diligence: As this is one of the most document-heavy phases of any M&A transaction, AI can assist to triage, classify, and summarise large document sets to accelerate issue spotting and free up ...

The 2018 review of Western Australian security of payment laws, which preceded the introduction of the WA SOP Act, indicates that section 16 does not legislate a general standard of reasonableness.

During the past two years, Australia has witnessed significant business-crime cases, including large-scale loan fraud syndicates, multi-million-dollar Ponzi schemes and insider fraud at major ...

Global experience, even in countries like Denmark with massive world-leading renewables already deployed, show that at a minimum around a 20 per cent baseload dependency remains important. In the ...

Relief expires 1 April 2026. The current exemption under ASIC Corporations (Employee redundancy funds relief) Instrument 2015/1150 will not be remade. From that date, operators must comply with ...

For issuers, this emphasises that simply issuing a questionnaire is not enough to discharge their reasonable steps obligations – instead, issuers need to review and assess the responses being provided ...

Subscription traps in digital markets: While last year’s priorities focused on misleading or deceptive advertising in the digital economy, this year the ACCC is prioritising manipulative and false ...

Similar in many ways to the notifiable data breaches scheme under the Commonwealth privacy regime, IPP Entities will need to have appropriate policies and procedures in place to meet new notification ...

Artificial intelligence has rapidly shifted from a niche technology to a central driver of business transformation and efficiency. In just a few years, organisations have adopted a vast array of ...

The test for whether a term is unfair is not so clear that contract drafters can have absolute confidence that they can prevent an automatic renewal clause from falling foul of the unfair contract ...

Initially foreshadowed in late 2022, and following community consultation which commenced in 2019, the WA Government has this month introduced Bills to implement its proposed new privacy and ...

The NSW Government has introduced into Parliament a Bill which proposes the most radical changes to NSW planning laws in the last decade. The changes proposed in the Environmental Planning and ...