Australia: Debt Capital Markets

The Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) is a comprehensive legal framework designed to regulate the creation, registration and enforcement of security interests in personal property across various jurisdictions, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Its primary goal is to establish clear rules for how lenders and borrowers can secure loans using personal assets, ensuring transparency and predictability in commercial transactions.

You must consider privacy responsibilities if your business collects personal information. Importantly, this includes ensuring that you do not disclose any inaccurate personal information to third-parties.

Stopping repossession in Queensland is often possible, but success depends on acting early and understanding the legal framework governing mortgage enforcement. Banks cannot automatically seize and sell a home after missed repayments.

This article outlines the implications of the transitional relief ceasing to apply from 1 July 2026 and identifies the matters that entities should consider in anticipation of operating outside the transitional regime.

This decision confirms that section 444GA can be utilised to achieve a transfer of shares in circumstances where the transaction provides for value to be paid to shareholders.

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.

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.

Issuing a financial product is a financial service and, therefore, would seem to require the issuer to hold an AFSL.

Obligation of AFSL holders and credit licensees to determine whether there has been a change of control in their entity.