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Monitoring corporate law change

BLT participants: Associate Professor Helen Anderson, Mark Bender, Paula Darvas, Nance Frawley, Abe Herzberg, Associate Professor Paul Latimer, Phillip Lipton, Associate Professor Vince Morabito, Dr Janine Pascoe, Dr Andrew Serpell, Eu-Jin Teo, Michelle Welsh

Outline

A number of BLT researchers are tracking and exploring major developments in “mainstream” corporate law in Australia, and their implications for business, institutional investors, regulators and other key players, eg:

  • the impact of corporate governance reform on company directors (Associate Professor Helen Anderson)
  • insider trading and other developments in financial services regulation (Associate Professor Paul Latimer)
  • the treatment of financiers as secured creditors under guarantees etc (Dr Janine Pascoe)
  • executive remuneration, eg the operation of new CLERP 9 provisions in the first company AGM reporting season (Abe Herzberg)
  • how do companies under voluntary administration fare over the longer term and broader issues in the areas of “corporate distress”, collapse and rescue (Abe Herzberg)
  • civil penalty regime, enforcement, Australian Securities and Investment Commission (Michelle Welsh)
  • performance-based pay, earnings management and directors’ duties (Eu-Jin Teo)
  • technology issues confronting corporations, eg Australia’s anti-'spam' legislation (Mark Bender)
  • shareholders' remedies (Nance Frawley)
  • financial services regulation and ASIC (Andrew Serpell)
  • the regulation of corporate groups, and the "separate entity" and "limited liability" principles (Phillip Lipton)
  • the effectiveness of shareholder class actions as mechanisms to secure compensation for aggrieved shareholders and to enhance corporate governance and accountability (Associate Professor Vince Morabito)

Current and proposed activities

2006

  • Several BLT academics made presentations at the CLARG research workshop "Current Themes and Issues in Corporate Law".  (workshop program pdf ~ 27kb)

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