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Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Central Bank Digital Currencies as a potential response to the financial inclusion challenges of the Pacific

Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Central Bank Digital Currencies as a potential response to the financial inclusion challenges of the PacificDespite years of effort, financial inclusion persists as a major challenge in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs), with many in the region still lacking access to financial services. This webinar considers what central […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Recent cases on Quistclose trusts

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Recent cases on Quistclose trustsQuistclose Trusts can be a useful tool in commercial and other disputes. This webinar will discuss recent decisions from across the Common Law world on Quistclose trusts. Presenter: Ronny Chen, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers, Sydney. Ronny Chen has a particular interest in cross-border commercial and […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: SPACs, Direct Listings, and SEC Reform

Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: SPACs, Direct Listings, and SEC ReformPresenter: Professor Andrew Tuch, Washington University in St Louis Despite recent market volatility, mergers of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and direct listings remain viable alternatives to IPOs in the United States. SPACs continue to outnumber traditional IPOs. Direct listings have allowed companies, including […]

Development of the Common Law by Analogy to Statute

Law Lounge, Level 1

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Development of the common law by analogy to statuteIn-person event In recent decades the importance of statute within Australian law has increased enormously. Legislation has proliferated in size, number and scope; and many of these statutes contain underlying policies, values and ideas which the common law is capable […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experience

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experienceOnline event This webinar will consider the SME restructuring reforms introduced in 2020 in SubChapter V of Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. The presenter will examine how the recent reforms have performed and compare this experience with other small business […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry

Law Lounge, Level 1

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiryHybrid event This event will discuss the submissions made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry that is due to release its report at the end of May. The speakers will consider the range of submissions made to the inquiry and […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock

Corrs, Chambers Westgarth

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking StockIn-person event ‘Crowd-sourced funding’ is a new form of online venture capital stock market, open to all investors—retail and wholesale—that was only legally authorised in Australia five years ago. It’s like Kickstarter, except the backer gets a share in the […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative reviewIn-person event This 24-nation review of social enterprise law analyzes data developed by a team of academics and practitioners with deep expertise regarding jurisdictions on six continents. Each responded to the authors’ detailed questionnaire inquiring into the relevant jurisdiction’s legal treatment […]

Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholders

Law Foyer, Level 2

Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholdersIn-person event   In 1911, Justice Louis Brandeis argued that: ‘…there is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. It is entirely contrary…to what ought to be our whole attitude towards investments, that the person who has a chance for profit by going into […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 and Corporations Act s 588FL

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 and Corporations Act s 588FLOnline event The Government’s response to the Statutory Review of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (‘PPSA’) has been released, including an Exposure Draft containing its proposed amendments. We are currently within an […]