The Supreme Court of Victoria rejected a novel, ratcheted Group Costs Order ( GCO) in Peter Collens and Gai Collens ATF the Collens Superannuation Fund v Mineral Resources Limited and Anor preferring ...

If passed, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Genetic Testing Protections in Life Insurance and Other Measures) Bill 2025 will create the following three new licensing exemptions, replacing the current ...

The Federal Government has released exposure draft legislation (the Treasury Laws Amendment (Business Registries Stabilisation and Uplift) Bill 2025 ), accompanying draft regulations and explanatory / ...

This week, the Australian Treasurer enacted new regulations to outlaw excessive pricing by Australian supermarkets. These regulations will come into force on 1 July 2026. The Treasurer announced the ...

For the first time, the Federal Court of Australia has ordered that an ASIC civil penalty, be diverted away from the Commonwealth for the benefit of group members in a parallel class action, with the ...

When ASIC released its Capital Markets Roadmap (REP 823) in November, it foreshadowed the introduction of an “easily-referenced regulatory guidance catalogue” for funds management. That commitment has ...

In a dramatic change to Australian patent law, Australia's Full Federal Court has just held that patents for pharmaceutical formulations are not eligible for patent term extensions ( PTE ): Otsuka ...

The Impact Report confirms what many in the market have sensed. Impact investing is no longer an experiment. It is a viable, rapidly expanding component of mainstream portfolios. Capital is flowing, ...

COP30 wrapped up with a mixed bag of outcomes, leaving no constituency satisfied with the final result: While some progress was made on the Just Transition and Adaptation Finance, there was a ...

Clayton Utz is pleased to be advising National Storage REIT on it’s a $4 billion acquisition by a consortium comprising Brookfield and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. The transaction marks the ...

Australia’s merger control system is about to undergo its most significant overhaul in half a century.