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Can A Holding Company Be Liable For Its Subsidiary's Debts?

A holding company is not automatically liable for the debts of its subsidiaries, even where it exercises control or operates as part of an integrated corporate group.

Australia Finance

SL

Stonegate Legal

Global Bank Review 2025

Over the past year, one truth has become unmistakably clear for the banking industry: managing complexity is not a transient state; it is simply the air the modern bank must breathe.

Australia Finance

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

When Caution Becomes Commitment: Lessons From The Mayne Pharma MAC Decision

The ruling provides guidance on the threshold for establishing a MAC.

Australia Finance

BP

Bennett & Philp Lawyers

Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs)

A Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) is an instrument that closely follows the financial settlement terms of a Contract for Difference (CFD).

Worldwide Finance

TRAction

Private Debt Surges Past $224 Billion, Marking A New Era Of Financial Momentum In Australia

Australia Finance

AM

Alvarez & Marsal

Australian Private Debt Market Review 2025

Australia Commercial

AM

Alvarez & Marsal

Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy: Market Insights From World-first Pilot Program

Australia Finance

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

The Roses Have Wilted And Only A Few Less Thorns—Australia's Finalised Third Party Debt Test Guidance

AM

Alvarez & Marsal

Professions And Financial Lines Brief - Latest Decisions October 2025

Australia Finance

K

Kennedys

Blackbird Swoops In Effort To Extinguish Secured Creditor's Rights Under DOCA

Australia Finance

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Private credit and non-performing loans: navigating risk in the Australian debt market

Australia Finance

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

APAC Monthly Private Wealth Legal Developments – September 2025

Worldwide Finance

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Actionable Ideas For Re-enlivening Australia's Public Markets And Helping Public Company Directors Get Better Sleep

Australia Commercial

KW

King & Wood Mallesons

Need A Loan From Your Parents To Buy A House?

Australia Finance

P

PCL Lawyers

Michael Byrnes discusses the Westpac WFH case on 2SM with Tim Webster

Australia Employment

S

Swaab

Employment Relations Podcast #45 – Employment Law For The Time Poor… Live!

Australia Employment

PA

Piper Alderman

Funds Update - 9 January 2026

Australia Finance

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Crime Rates in Sydney: Suburbs with the Highest and Lowest Rates

Australia Criminal

OC

O'Brien Criminal & Civil Solicitors

Employment Relations Podcast #46 – Safety In The Workplace: Drug And Alcohol Testing And Policies

Australia Employment

PA

Piper Alderman

ASIC Enforcement Action Relating To Business Loans (Green County Case)

The court ruled that Green County and Max Funding could not merely rely on a signed business purpose declaration to avoid the application of the NCC and the licensing requirement.

Australia Finance

SG

Sophie Grace Pty Ltd

Australian M&A Activity Strong Through FY25 Despite Macro Dynamics: Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Report

A total of 59 deals were announced in FY25, consistent with the five-year average of 60 deals...

Australia Commercial

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Beneath The Surface: Making Up The Deficit - The Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve And Australia's Unrealised Critical Minerals Production Potential

In April 2025, the Albanese Government pledged A$1.2 billion to establish a Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve (Strategic Reserve).

Australia Government

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Lessons From Lifeplan: How Forensic Experts Bolster Legal Strategy

10 years on, FTI Consulting's work on the Lifeplan Australia Friendly Society Ltd case against two of Lifeplan's former employees and the Ancient Order of Foresters in Victoria Friendly Society Limited still offers rich and relevant insights into the intersection of forensic expert evidence and legal strategy.

Australia Litigation

FC

FTI Consulting

The big issue with issuing – Can it be done without holding an AFSL?

Australia Finance

HN

Holley Nethercote

Who's in control? Changes of control to a licensed entity and your obligations

Australia Finance

HN

Holley Nethercote

Can you serve a statutory demand by email in Australia?

Australia Litigation

SL

Stonegate Legal

Setting Aside a Statutory Demand and Requirements for the Supporting Affidavit – BRC Group v Watagan Park [2025] VSCA 36

Australia Commercial

MD

McCarthy Durie Lawyers

Embracing Arbitration For Australian Financial Services Disputes

Australia Finance

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

The Regulation Of Private Markets In Australia—Where To Next?

Australia Finance

JD

Jones Day

Yes, crypto currency is personal property!

Australia Finance

CG

Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

Regulatory Shifts Reshape Trade Reporting: Liquidity Provider Agreements Require Changes

Australia Finance

TRAction

ESMA's assessment of the MiFID Trade Reporting Framework

Australia Finance

TRAction

Piper Alderman's Response to ASIC Consultation Paper 381

Australia Finance

PA

Piper Alderman

Yes, crypto currency is personal property!

Re Blockchain Tech Pty Ltd [2024] VSC 690.

Australia Finance

CG

Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

Regulatory Shifts Reshape Trade Reporting: Liquidity Provider Agreements Require Changes

Evolving landscape of trade reporting and the imperative for firms to adapt their liquidity provider agreements.

Australia Finance

TRAction

ESMA's assessment of the MiFID Trade Reporting Framework

The consultation from October 2024 discusses the revisions proposed to the existing technical standards.

Australia Finance

TRAction

Piper Alderman's Response to ASIC Consultation Paper 381

ASIC's proposed updates to its guidance on digital assets, including the interpretation of the Corporations Act 2001.

Australia Finance

PA

Piper Alderman

To name or not to name? ASX revises its approach to continuous disclosure obligations for market sensitive contracts

Australia Finance

PA

Piper Alderman

Are you taking reasonable steps to ensure your authorised representatives do not accept conflicted remuneration?

Case clarifies actions taken by AFS Licensees may constitute 'reasonable steps'.

Australia Finance

SG

Sophie Grace Pty Ltd

Launching a new financial product in 2025? Don't forget to do these things…

Launching a new product today is trickier than it's ever been.

Australia Finance

HN

Holley Nethercote

Blockchain Bites: ASIC updates guidance on carrying on business in Australia, ATO updates ETF guidance as ETH ETF launches, Australia to introduce new Cyber Security laws, DECA takes tokenisation policy proposals to Canberra

Guidance to overseas companies on whether they are, and how they can compliantly, conduct a financial services business.

Australia Finance

PA

Piper Alderman

Thin Capitalisation And Recent Changes For The Financial Services Sector: What To Consider Next

Recent amendments to Australia's thin capitalisation rules in Division 820 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth) (ITAA 1997) to implement new earnings-based tests for general class investors...

Australia Finance

AM

Alvarez & Marsal

Regulatory Radar Q3 2024

Australia Finance

GC

Gilchrist Connell

‘Margin discounts' for CFDs under ASIC scrutiny

Australia Finance

SG

Sophie Grace Pty Ltd

Phasing out bank AT1 capital instruments (Capital Notes): a significant development from APRA

Australia Finance

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Application Was Indirect Attempt To Enforce Foreign Revenue Debt

WF

William Fry

First round of public consultation on Australia's Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

Australia Finance

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Australian High Court: No Statutory Set-Off Against Unfair Preference Claims

Australia Litigation

JD

Jones Day

First In Line In Australia: Resolving Competing Priorities Regimes When Winding Up Companies In A Partnership

Australia Insolvency

JD

Jones Day

Your next ASIC invoice – indicative costs ASICs 2021-2022 Regulatory Levies released

Australia Finance

SG

Sophie Grace Pty Ltd

SOPA & Statutory Demands

Australia Commercial

VY

Vincent Young

The Australian private debt market continues to grow exponentially

Australia Finance

CP

Cathro & Partners

Set Aside: Australian Creditors Unable To Rely On Statutory Set-Offs To Defend Unfair Preference Claims

Australia Insolvency

JD

Jones Day

After A Peak Comes The Fall: Australian Federal Court Rejects "Peak Indebtedness Rule"

Australia Insolvency

JD

Jones Day

How Do The Changes To Insolvency Laws Affect My Business?

Australia Finance

L

LegalVision

What Are The Pros And Cons Of Winding Up A Company That Owes My Business A Debt?

Australia Commercial

L

LegalVision

My Company Is In Financial Distress. Is A Creditors' Scheme Of Arrangement The Right Option?

Australia Finance

L

LegalVision

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