Two clocks that do not wait for each other
Oracle. The treaty route for resolving double taxation and the domestic objection route run on separate time limits, and the shorter one governs.
Contracts, structures and governance for businesses that need the paperwork to hold when something goes wrong.
Buying or selling a business, from the term sheet and due diligence through to completion and the restraints that follow.
Commercial disputes in the NSW, ACT and Federal courts, resolved early where that is possible and run properly where it is not.
Your product scales digitally. Your contracts have to scale with it.
Where the law changed, what it now requires, and what a business has to do about it.
One question worked through end to end, with the provisions and the decisions it rests on.
What a judgment decided, and what follows from it for anyone in the same position.
A German desk for businesses moving between Australia and the German-speaking market.
Singapore law where it governs the contract, and the arbitral seat that carries much of the region’s work.
Oracle. The treaty route for resolving double taxation and the domestic objection route run on separate time limits, and the shorter one governs.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers case. Advice is not privileged because of the letterhead it arrives on, and a mixed engagement is decided document by document.
Alcoa. How draft expert material circulates can give away the protection the company thought it had.
New Image v Dart. An intercompany liability found by the auditors, not disclosed to the buyer, and litigated as a contract claim rather than a tax
The formal requirements are short and almost every homemade will that fails, fails on one of them. But the ground that catches the most valid wills
Both jurisdictions give a six-year period and a two-year period for statutory warranties, and they divide them on different questions. New South Wales asks how serious
What a director of an Australian company actually owes, what falls due each year, and where the personal exposure sits. The four general duties run to
There are six things you can do about an unpaid invoice and they only work in one order. This sets out what each step is actually
The Chamber brought its members together on the defence sector. We spoke to the groundwork a smaller German supplier needs before it can win work in
A modern award applies to an Australian employee because of the work performed, not because of the employment contract or the salary. Paying well above the