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Overview of Australia's foreign investment approval (FIRB) regime
Significant changes to Australia's foreign investment approval (FIRB) regime came into effect last year. This guide provides up-to-date information you need to know about how the new FIRB regime operates. ...
ACCC recommends significant reforms targeting digital platforms
The ACCC's Interim Report 5 in the Digital Platform Services Inquiry (the DPSI) recommends to Treasury a number of reforms to competition and consumer laws which it considers are not currently sufficient to address harms it has identified since 2017. ...
Key issues in designing a mandatory merger regime for a modern economy
In this Insight, we examine what the ACCC has put forward so far and the implications, drawing on the experience and architecture of regimes overseas. ...
2024 retail webinar: unfair dealings, data compliance and IP challenges
Covered in this webinar: Competition and consumer law update: the ACCC's focus on unfair dealings. Technology: how retailers can leverage data-driven personalised marketing while navigating spam compliance and a changing privacy regulatory landscape. Intellectual property: the rise of 'dupe culture', and liability for IP infringements by third-party service providers. ...
Financial services regulation update (November edition)
Covered in this webinar: The significant reforms to Australia's merger control regime likely coming into effect from 1 January 2026. What will the new regime look like? Which types of deals are likely to be caught? What practical issues should be considered before the new regime comes into effect? APRA's increasing scrutiny of expenditure by superannuation trustees. What are APRA's areas of likely focus for surveillance and enforcement action? What are the expenditure requirements in the new SPS 515? What practical steps can trustees take to prepare? ...
The future of mergers in Australia
Australia's merger regime is set for a major overhaul, with reforms coming into effect for deals closing or completing on or after 1 January 2026, impacting transaction timelines from mid-2025. These changes will introduce a single mandatory and suspensory administrative process, replacing the current framework. ...
Allens advises Patriot Battery Metals on Australian aspects of strategic partnership with Volkswagen Group
The proceeds of the strategic investment will be used to advance Patriot's Shaakichiuwaanaan Project, the largest lithium pegmatite resource in the Americas and the eighth largest in the world. The ...
Allens advises CDPQ on NZ$909m acquisition of 50% stake in Connexa
The deal marks the first major secondary sale of an interest in a telecommunications digital infrastructure asset in the region, with CDPQ acquiring 33% of OTPP's stake in Connexa and Spark New ...
Allens advises Boost Mobile on acquisition by Telstra
Allens has advised the shareholders of prepaid mobile services provider Boost Mobile, including Paul Keating, Peter Adderton and Peter and Stephen Hill, on the sale of the business to Telstra. The ...
Critical minerals outlook: M&A to ramp up in 2025
2024 was a turbulent year for dealmakers, project developers and investors in critical minerals. Immature markets and declining prices driven by the ramp-up of new supply outpacing demand growth impacted both financing availability and dealmaking activity. ...