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The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (the Committee) has recently recommended an amendment to the Corporations Act which if adopted will limit public access to the share register of Australian companies.

Proposed reforms include the adoption of 345 of the Whittaker Review's recommendations and a number of other changes.

Businesses should review and keep track of the expiry dates of all PPSR registrations, in case they need to be renewed.

Granting security to avoid a proceeding against a related company may not constitute an "uncommercial transaction".

Listed companies should brace themselves for an increase in low-ball unsolicited offers to their Mum & Dad shareholders before Parliament shuts down a loophole later in the year.

Where family members provide a loan which is not a gift, the loan should be documented and secured as much as possible.

Gift and loan back arrangements are controversial but have historically been popular. The popularity of these arrangements arose from the fact that it provided a mechanism to protect assets particularly in...

The current banking royal commission is now to examine lending to farmers….

If you enter into a lease or bailment for two years or less, you do not need to register that interest on the PPSR.

The failure by General Electric to register on the PPSR has cost them their very expensive generator turbines.

The PPS legislation will create as online registration system for all security interests, including bareboat leases.

After one of the longest gestation periods for any proposed law reform, Australia is now substantially down the track towards having a completely new system of creation, documentation, registration and enforcement of securities over assets.

Authorised representatives of Australian Financial Service License (AFSL) holders and credit representatives of Australian Credit Licence (ACL) holders may be deemed "contractors"...

This is a case of where the owner of valuable goods loses title because it did not register its interest on the PPSR.

In the process of migration, all of the security interest information was not captured and transferred to the PPSR.

This e-book is designed to give lenders a more in-depth knowledge of deeds of priority and second mortgage transactions.

With the big banks tightening their lending criteria, the popularity of the private lending market continues to increase.

The High Court delivered its decision in the Sons of Gwalia case (Sons of Gwalia Ltd v Margaretic; ING Investment Management LLC v Margaretic) on 31 January 2007.