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Do More With Less (Part 1): How In-House Teams Can Find The Core Of Legal Activities
Every in-house team hears the same instruction: do more with less. The usual responses are to pull work back in-house and to push external firms on rates, and both run out of road quickly. The teams that escape the squeeze change the question. Instead of defending a budget, they show the executive how a small number of legal activities move the objectives the business already measures.
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LegalVision
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ASIC And APRA Corporate Plans 2026–27: What Regulated Entities Should Expect
APRA and ASIC have released their 2026–27 Corporate Plans, signalling more intensive supervision and enforcement, alongside targeted measures intended to reduce unnecessary regulatory burden. Their priorities span operational resilience, cyber security, artificial intelligence, consumer protection, insurance, superannuation, market integrity and digital assets. For regulated entities, the plans provide a practical roadmap of the areas most likely to attract supervisory attention, information requests and, where deficiencies are identified, enforcement action.
Australia Commercial
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Gilchrist Connell
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Part 6: Independent Legal Advice For Franchise Buyers: Negotiation And Committing With Clarity
By the time the evaluation is done, the remaining task is to commit well: to take advice that is substantive rather than a formality, to ask for clarification even where negotiation is unlikely, and to carry the disciplines of due diligence into the operation of the business. None of it removes risk, but together these change the character of the risk you accept.
Australia Commercial
Whelan Lawyers
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Part 5: The Franchise Premises Lease, Capital Expenditure, And Exit Exposures Overlooked By Buyers
Buyers tend to study the start of a franchise relationship in detail and give far less attention to three exposures that sit slightly out of view: the premises the business trades from, the capital the franchisor can require you to spend after you have signed, and the provisions that govern how the relationship ends. Each is capable of reshaping the economics of the deal, and each is easier to address before you commit than after.
Australia Commercial
Whelan Lawyers
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Part 4: The Franchise Agreement And The Code: Terms That Shape Your Market And Margins
If financial due diligence tests whether the opportunity adds up, the franchise agreement tests what you are actually agreeing to. Around that agreement the Code builds a framework of protections, and within it sit a handful of clauses that will shape your market and your margins for the life of the relationship. Both deserve closer reading than they usually receive.
Australia Commercial
Whelan Lawyers
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Australia's Enhanced Substantial Holding Disclosure And Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Regime Comes Into Effect From 4 December
Australian financial markets face a fundamental shift in disclosure requirements from December 2026, as new rules expand substantial holding obligations beyond traditional voting interests to capture derivative positions and economic exposure. Market participants must now navigate complex calculations involving physically settleable derivatives, cash-settled instruments, and offsetting short positions—with no grandfathering for existing holdings.
Australia Finance
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K&L Gates LLP
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Proposed Changes To The Pre-Lodgement Advertising And Publicity Regime: What Does It Mean?
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has proposed significant reforms to pre-lodgement advertising rules that would allow companies to communicate more freely with markets before filing disclosure documents. While offering greater flexibility for IPO offerors to gauge interest and address market commentary, the changes raise important questions about investor protection and the potential for premature investment decisions based on incomplete information.
Australia Commercial
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K&L Gates LLP
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