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Treasury to 'modernise' individual tax residency rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023
... circumstances and not others. Who would decide?" Treasury asks. Under the current 183-day test, according to law firm Baker McKenzie, non-residents are considered tax residents of Australia if they are physically present in Australia for more than 183 ...

Loftus Peak lists active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... mFund marketplace. Equity Trustees said the quoted fund is a first for it. Mainstream will handle the registry Baker McKenzie provided legal advice. "Loftus Peak has been our client since 2016 when they launched the Loftus Peak Global Disruption Fund. ...

Willis Towers Watson buys Aussie broker

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... Indemnity insurance and other specialist M&A products, such as tax (specifically indemnity) and environmental. Baker McKenzie acted for Willis Towers Watson in the deal, whose terms of transactions were not disclosed.

Super smashes best-performing salaries list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... the biggest hit. Legal generalists working in law firms experienced the largest salary fall of 21% to $82,044. Baker McKenzie global chair of law Paul Rawlinson said 30 years ago, clients might pay millions to have thousands of documents manually reviewed ...

New ASX governance principles target culture

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... environmental or social risks and how it manages such risks. One standout is the concept of culture, according to Baker McKenzie partner and M&A expert Richard Lustig. There's a new obligation for a listed company to ensure it has a culture that ...

Will the PC recommendations fall through the cracks?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... recommendations will form policy for both the Government and Opposition going into the May election, Steffanoni said. Baker McKenzie special counsel Alan Darwin says some of the recommendations are uncontroversial and could be implemented reasonably ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... intelligence (AI) more than ever, but remain sceptic of compliance and legal risks of the technology, according to a new Baker McKenzie report. Baker McKenzie surveyed 355 financial services leaders around the world for Ghosts in the Machine: Revisited ...

Advisers warming up to LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
Adviser participation in the IPOs of listed investment companies has jumped by nearly 30% since July last year, according to a leading IPO specialist. SeedPartnerships director Chris Clayton says until last year about 80% of LIC floats were taken up ...

Aussie IPO launches at decade high

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... the first half of this year, yet the capital they raised is significantly lower than four years ago, according to Baker McKenzie. The law firm looked at IPO activity by Aussie issuers in both domestic and cross-border markets for H1 for all years between ...

ME Bank recruits for people experience

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... recently involved in the first ever Basel III true perpetual hybrid transaction in the Australian market. Law firm Baker McKenzie advised NAB and Westpac as joint lead managers on ME Bank's issue of $200 million Perpetual Capital Additional Tier 1 Notes. ...
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