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read more20 July 2021 | Business Structuring | Colin Miller
As part of an ongoing webinar discussion series, the CFO Centre and Nexus Law Group discuss the options available to a company negatively impacted by COVID, lockdowns and a substantial drop in revenue.
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read more23 June 2021 | Business Structuring | Colin Miller
As part of an ongoing webinar discussion series, the CFO Centre and Nexus Law Group discuss key economic, financial and legal issues impacting Australian SMEs. In this episode, the CFO Centre’s CEO David King, NSW Regional Director Paul Gunson and Nexus Corporate & Commercial specialist Group Principal Colin Miller discuss current client business sentiment and structuring options available for SMEs in this new post Job Keeper economic environment.
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read more07 June 2021 | Commercial Agreements | Colin Miller
"It is important directors identify potential solvency issues and engage with the appropriate avenues of support as early on as possible, if they are able to ride out the wake of these domestic and international events," said Nexus Risk & Compliance specialist Colin Miller.
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read more01 June 2021 | Corporate Finance | Colin Miller
The Australian Federal Court has imposed the second largest penalty ever under Australia’s Consumer Law on Telstra for unconscionable conduct. "Businesses must be diligent in ensuring conduct with customers does not leave them open to a claim of unconscionable conduct," said Group Principal Colin Miller.
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read more06 May 2021 | Corporate Finance | Colin Miller
Following a recent Federal Court decision, the scope of ‘unconscionable conduct’ under Australian Consumer Law ('ACL') has been expanded. The recent decision in the Quantum Housing case has established a wider scope for a party to claim in commercial disputes that they were the subject of unconscionable conduct.
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read more10 February 2021 | Corporate Finance | Colin Miller
Effective 1 July 2021, businesses in Australia need to be aware of the newly expanded definition of 'consumer' under Australia Consumer Law ('ACL'), which will allow more customers to rely on Consumer Guarantees.
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read more27 January 2021 | Corporate Finance | Justine Lamond
Events such as the 2019 Australian bushfires & the global COVID pandemic have highlighted how pivotal it is for Not For Profit (NFPs) organisations to improve their governance processes and diversify their funding sources, both of which have a material impact on the ultimate success of the NFP.
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read more18 January 2021 | Corporate Finance | Marcus McCarthy
In a bid to support the Australian economy and business during the pandemic, the new Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act restricted the ways that creditors could recover their debts. These COVID-driven debtor relief measures have now expired.
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read more21 December 2020 | Corporate Finance | Jeremy Duffy
Nexus' Principal and legal tech expert Jeremy Duffy discusses the three key things legal businesses undertake to start 2021 in a more cyber-secure position.
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read more01 December 2020 | Corporate Finance | Colin Miller
With Australia’s new Payment Times Reporting Scheme commencing 1 January 2021, large businesses in Australia will start the new year having to publicly report their payment practices to small businesses.
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read more26 October 2020 | Estate Planning | Maria Shaw
If you are a trustee or beneficiary of a discretionary trust that owns property in NSW, your trust deed may require amendments that exclude ‘foreign persons’ as beneficiaries by 31 December 2020 to avoid additional surcharges.
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read more31 August 2020 | Banking & Finance | Justine Lamond
Nexus has appointed Regulatory and Compliance specialist Colin Miller as Principal of its newly established Perth office.
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read more26 March 2020 | Corporate & Commercial | Deepesh Daya
On Sunday, 22 March 2020, the Federal Government announced that the Treasurer has been granted temporary powers to make regulatory changes …
