Category: Legal
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‘Safe Harbour’ protections may help Australian startups and scaleups ride out the current storm
07-29-22
Legal Briefing – By Paul Apáthy, Mark Clifton and Elizabeth Henderson (Herbert Smith Freehills). With a tightening market for capital, the ‘safe harbour’ protections may be critical for Australian startups and scaleups who are unsure if they can raise more capital within their current cash runway or who need to raise through debt securities like convertible notes. […]
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TMA Australia Safe Harbour Guidelines
06-28-22
Based on AICD surveys, the personal liability risk in relation to insolvent trading is very important to directors in times of financial distress. Recently, the Government has moved to soften the prospect of personal liability by introducing Safe Harbour reforms. But it is all very well and good knowing that there is a Safe Harbour […]
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Safe Harbour submissions – TMA Australia
10-19-21
Treasury invited TMA Australia to make a submission in respect of its consultation paper on Safe Harbour (along with the Scheme of Arrangement submission previously provided to TMA members on 15 October). We are pleased to say that we provided our submission just before the TMA Australia Conference. It has been a busy month! The […]
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Helping Companies Restructure by Improving Schemes of Arrangement: TMA Australia Submissions on the Consultation Paper
09-20-21
The Turnaround Management Association of Australia (the TMA) welcomes the opportunity to provide submissions in response to the consultation paper Helping Companies Restructure by Improving Schemes of Arrangement dated 2 August 2021 issued by The Treasury of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (the Consultation Paper) The TMA is a community of professionals dedicated […]
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TMA Submission – Insolvency Reforms to support Small Business
10-13-20
Turnaround and restructuring naturally lie at the heart of the Turnaround Management Association (“TMA”) Australia. That is why, with Australia facing a pandemic induced recession through no fault of its own, the TMA supports SME law reform which promotes restructuring of businesses facing insolvency through no fault of their own. Yesterday the TMA submitted its […]