The ACCC have recently made the Competition and Consumer(Class Exemption—Collective Bargaining) Determination 2020 (Class Exemption).

Here are the latest updates from Sierra Legal - Newsletter. If you have any queries about any of the articles in our Newsletter, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Sierra Legal team.

Following our previous articles about temporary laws that were implemented because of COVID-19 to make it easier for company officers to sign documents electronically, the recent 2020-21 Budget indicates that reforms will be implemented to make these temporary laws permanent.

We were delighted to assist CRG Operations Pty Ltd, and its directors Edward Plowman, Graeme Goldman and John Weste, on the recent acquisition of the Clark Rubber Group.

In our April legal update we provided commentary on temporary changes to the insolvency/bankruptcy regimes in the Corporations Act and Bankruptcy Act that were implemented to assist businesses and individuals navigate through Covid-19.

The Corporations (Coronavirus Economic Response) Determination (No. 3) 2020 (“Determination”) has now extended the operation of the temporary laws until 21 March 2021.

We recently sat down with Senior Associate Ken Gitahi to ask all the burning questions …

We recently sat down with Peter Jorgensen, Managing Director of All States Vehicle Logistics Pty Ltd trading as Spiral Logistics. Peter was instrumental in facilitating and implementing the acquisition of Spiral Logistics, a leading Australian logistics business for specialised freight, with a...

On 15 September 2020, the ASX released Compliance Update no. 09/20 to announce changes to its temporary capital raising relief measures and to announce a number of other compliance updates. The changes to the capital raising relief measures are as a result of the ongoing stabilisation in market...

Sierra Legal is proud to have advised the National Lotteries and Newsagents Association (NLNA) on an exhaustive tender process that resulted in the appointment of Finn Business Sales as the exclusive business broker of the NLNA, to represent Australian newsagents seeking to buy or sell newsagency...

Sierra Legal would like to congratulate Straight Bat Private Equity on the recent completion of its first portfolio investment in one of Australia’s leading process engineering service providers.

Here are the latest news updates from Sierra Legal - Newsletter.

We recently sat down with Jonathan Lewin, Commercial Director of Simoco Wireless Solutions Pty Ltd. In this Q&A, Jonathan shares his thoughts on the importance of having an effective set of terms and conditions for use with suppliers.

We were delighted to assist CEO James Rennie and Australian UAV on their recent acquisition of, and merger with, leading drone business Uaviation.  It was a pleasure working with James and his team!” You can ready more about Australian UAV and Uaviation here -...

Jen has just enjoyed a 6 month secondment with Medibank’s in-house legal team, supporting their Customer and Portfolio division and advising on consumer-facing collateral and their customer loyalty program.  During that time, she gained insight into the private health insurance industry (including...

As part of the DynamicBusiness.com.au "Let's Talk" series, Sierra Legal Senior Associate Troy Mossley shares his thoughts on "the legal support your business needs." Read Troy's thoughts and the rest of the discussion here -...

Sierra Legal Director, Michael Jeffery, has recently been featured in this article by Dorna Moini from Documate. Thanks Dorna! Article: https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2020/06/22/5-ways-smbs-use-automation-to-keep-up-in-the-remote-and-online-world/

Following the launch of Arreis Automation - Sierra Legal’s new document automation service - in 2019, we are excited to be named in Australasian Lawyer’s Innovative Firms 2020 list!

Despite challenging conditions, we are still seeing a number of M&A/private equity transactions occurring across various industries. To assist owners of businesses/companies with the initial stages of planning a potential transaction for the sale of their business in Australia (or the sale of all...

In this Q&A, Special Counsel Jenny Lau talks about what she likes to do when she isn’t advising on M&A deals and reviewing contracts, her love of Kyoto and dumplings, and the book she is reading at the moment…

Certain types of documents (including wills, mortgages, affidavits, statutory declarations, and deeds) that are required to be signed by an individual (as opposed to a company) are only properly executed by that individual where they sign the document in the presence of a witness. As a result of...

With people working from home, or in lockdown, self-isolation or quarantine it has become more difficult for company officers to conduct physical, wet-ink execution of documents. As such, on 6 May 2020, a new temporary law was passed (which will last for 6 months from that date) that makes it...

On 31 March 2020, ASIC and the ASX announced temporary capital raising relief measures to assist ASX-listed entities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to undertake emergency capital raisings. Click here for our previous article summarising these relief measures. On 22 April 2020, the ASX updated...

On 31 March 2020, ASIC and the ASX announced temporary capital raising relief measures to assist ASX-listed entities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to undertake emergency capital raisings…

In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that is currently impacting Australia and the world, the National Cabinet agreed on 7 April 2020 that all Australian states and territories would implement a mandatory “Code of Conduct” for commercial tenancies.