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AMP, former employee settle

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... a termination with notice." Cook has since moved on to founding her own legal firm, Baker Cook Advisory, focusing on corporate governance, risk, culture and crisis management. Cook started working as a senior lawyer at AMP's Sydney offices in June ...

Ponzi scheme allegations levelled at Mayfair 101

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... leaving the country, they could have asked for his passport," Mayfair 101 said in a statement in response However, the corporate regulator was also seeking to ensure Mawhinney did not move money between his various companies. ASIC alleged that Mawhinney ...

AMP should stop whining: Slater and Gordon

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... said. "However, Mr De Ferrari's whining has actually done a very useful thing: he has revealed the true agenda of corporate Australia. He wants litigation funding for class actions cut off so AMP can go back to doing whatever they want without fear ...

Law firm bolsters financial services team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... regulator consents. Most recently, she has advised clients in relation to the impact of Brexit, focussing in particular on corporate governance, and has also helped clients in relation to various individual accountability regimes, including Hong Kong's ...

ASX appoints compliance chief

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... Janine Ryan will take over from Kevin Lewis as he shifts into an advisory role ahead of his retirement in mid-2022. ASX Corporate Governance Council chair Elizabeth Johnstone thanked Lewis for his decade of service to the stock exchange. "I wish to acknowledge ...

Former ASIC lawyer joins private firm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... across a number of legal and policy roles at ASIC from 2009 to 2016. She was most recently principal consultant at Ellis Corporate Governance Consulting and has previously served as special counsel at GRT Lawyers. "Symons is a seasoned financial services ...

IOOF faces new class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... require the management of financial services companies such as IOOF to account for alleged failures, and promote good corporate governance within the sector." Shine Lawyers is calling on IOOF shareholders who acquired their shares between March 2014 ...

SMSF platform makes $25m acquisition

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... first acquisition, in a bid to reinforce its position as a technology leader. Class will acquire all of the shares in corporate compliance and documentation platform NowInfinity by 1 February 2020, with the transaction set to be EPS accretive in FY21. ...

ASIC drags NAB to court for fees-for-no-service

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... NAB in the Federal Court over fees-for-no-service, which the bank continued to charge after the Royal Commission. The corporate regulator is seeking to find NAB made several thousand contraventions of the ASIC Act and the Corporations Act between December ...

Cbus enters corporate super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
The $54 billion industry superannuation fund is dipping its toes into the world of corporate super, launching a new offering this week. Cbus officially launched its Cbus Corporate Super product on Monday for those who wish to join the fund via their ...