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The Director’s Corporate Veil: In 2024, the Emperor Still has Clothes…but it’s no Kevla Vest
Did you know that as a director, you can be personally liable for company debts many years after it has gone into administration, even if you were...
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Corporate Law+ | What Remedies Arise For False Warranties in Business Sales? Part 1
Those who have been involved in negotiating the sale or purchase of a business will be well aware of the careful attention paid to warranties....
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Privacy Around the World – 2023 Pulse Check
Individual privacy is valued as a right in many countries around the world, and protection of privacy has become a vital concern for regulators. Yet...
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SAFE Notes: Are these Once Strange Things Suitable For Your Next Investment?
Once regarded as one of the investment community’s ‘stranger things’, SAFE Notes occupy the twilight zone between the usual binary alternatives...
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Directors IDs: Just how personal is this 15-digit identifier?
Nearly 2.7 million Australian Directors have submitted their personal information to the Australian Business Registry Service to apply for a Director...
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Corporate Law+ | Attention All Company Directors – Get Your Mandatory Director ID Number in 5 minutes
All directors of Australian companies must hold a Director Identification Number (DIN) or risk prosecution by ASIC. Below we simplify the process for...
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Can an A.I. Machine be an Inventor for Patent Registration?
Whether an AI machine can be recognised as an inventor for patent registration purposes raises fascinating legal and social anthropological...
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Corporate Law+ | Electronic Signing – How to Validly Use Cloud Based Platforms
While data and privacy concerns slowed the initial widespread adoption of e-signatures, attitudes have drastically changed towards e-signing and...
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Corporate Law+ | New Directors Must Now Get a Director ID Before Appointment
Prospective company directors are now legally required to apply for a Director Identification Number before they are appointed. The consequences of...
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Corporate Law+ | Company Directors set to get IDs from New Government Watchdog
Australian Company directors will soon be required to verify their identity with a recently formed Government Registrar by applying for a...
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Corporate Law+ | More Evidence of the End For Wet Ink? Victoria Becomes First State to Make Pandemic Reforms Permanent
Victoria has solidified its contemporary stance on electronic signatures and made its pandemic reforms permanent. In this article, we provide an...
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Corporate Law+ | The Return of E-Signatures: Updates to the Corporations Act under the 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns
Highly anticipated corporate law reforms have finally been implemented. In this article, we provide an insight into what the changes are, how they...
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COVID-19+ | Temporary Pandemic Relief Gives Way To Australia’s Most Significant Insolvency Reforms in 30 Years
Despite the expiry of the COVID-19 relief measures, small businesses continue to struggle with the economic challenges created by the pandemic....
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COVID-19+ | Protecting your Business from Cyber Attacks in a COVID-19 World
On 19 June 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that all levels of Australian government were targeted by ‘sophisticated state-based...
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COVID-19+ | Regulating the Modernisation of Corporate Governance in a Socially Distant World
The social distancing measures introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted much of our way of life in the last few months. In the...
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Watch your wall: Businesses liable for defamatory Facebook comments – NSW Court of Appeal confirms
On 1 June 2020, the NSW Court of Appeal controversially upheld the Supreme Court’s decision that media companies with Facebook pages could be...
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The Rise and Rise of IP – How to Protect and Leverage Intangible Assets
Intellectual Property (‘IP’) is the most important asset class for modern businesses today, accounting for almost 90% of a...
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COVID-19+ Update on National Cabinet’s Landscape-Shifting Commercial Leasing Code
On 7 April 2020 National Cabinet announced a mandatory code (‘Code’) for commercial leases of small and medium sized Australian business...
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COVID-19+ What Government Grants can SMEs piggy-bank?
In the last few months, COVID-19 has disrupted tens of thousands of businesses across the country, from large listed conglomerates to sole traders...
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COVID-19+ Newsflash! – National Cabinet unveils ground-breaking Commercial Leasing Code for SMEs
Under growing pressure to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, on 7 April 2020 National Cabinet announced a mandatory code for commercial lease tenancies...
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COVID-19+ ‘Stay at Home’ laws set to profoundly impact commercial offices
New laws mean that people in New South Wales must not leave their homes without ‘reasonable excuse’. A reasonable excuse is not...
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COVID-19+ Emergency Guide for Australian Businesses
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic causes health and social impacts on a previously almost unfathomable scale, for businesses too it is a...
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New Whistleblower Policy: 10 Key Points To Note!
All public companies have until 1 January 2020 to comply with the new whistleblower policy requirements. This requirement carries a $126,000 (body...
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Handle with care: owner drivers get new protections
Amendments to the Owner Drivers and Forestry Contractors Act create new protections for gig economy workers transporting...
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Watch your wall: Businesses liable for defamatory Facebook comments
A decision in the Supreme Court of New South Wales has paved the way for businesses to be held responsible for publishing defamatory comments by...
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