by AntcliffeScott | Jun 6, 2022 | ASIC, Business, Cyber Security, Privacy Law, Privacy Risk Management, Technology
The decision in Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) v RI Advice Group Pty Ltd [2022] FAC 496 (handed down on 5 May 2022) highlights the potential need for the financial services sector (and on a wider scale, corporate Australia), to do more,...
by AntcliffeScott | Apr 5, 2022 | Business, Business Growth, Buying a Business, Exit Strategy, General, Selling a Business, Succession Planning
You are a small business owner – some time in the next few years you want to sell, but have no immediate plans. But things can change quickly and without warning – health, family circumstances, or maybe someone comes to you and wants to buy your business. Is this the...
by AntcliffeScott | Feb 2, 2022 | Business, Business Growth, Intellectual Property, IP Rights, Trade marks
It’s impossible to start a New Year without some optimism about the potential for new opportunities and growth that it may bring to our own business and to that of our clients. Our New Year Resolution this year is to make our clients businesses more valuable and to...
by AntcliffeScott | Dec 16, 2021 | Brand, Business, Copyright Law, Intellectual Property, IP Rights
Copyright is the intellectual property right which protects ‘works’, including literary work, a dramatic work, a musical work, an artistic work or a cinematograph (s189 Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)). The purpose of copyright is to reward creators for their...
by AntcliffeScott | Nov 16, 2021 | ASIC, Business, Company News, Directors, Directorship
All Australian company directors are required to apply for their Director Identification Number (DIN), using the Australian Business Registry Services (ABRS) website before 30 November 2022. The DIN is a unique 15-digit identifier that will stay with a director for...
by AntcliffeScott | Oct 16, 2021 | ASIC, Business, Directorship, Estate Planning, Executorship, Positions of Trust
Many of us, through personal or business circumstances, are required to take on positions of trust, where the law imposes obligations on us to other people – for instance as an executor of a will or a director of a company. There are other situations where we are...
