A litigator with the corporate regulator has returned to private practice, joining BigSix firm MinterEllison as a partner on the dispute resolution team.
ASIC has taken Macquarie Securities to court alleging it failed to accurately report at least 73 million short sales over a period of 14 years.
Law firm Holding Redlich has brought proceedings against former Keystone director Paul Chiodo over $327,000 in legal fees, after acting in ASIC proceedings that raised “grave concerns” that he improperly spent investor funds.
The former CEO of the Star was not responsible for every aspect of the business and instead played a “supervisory role”, a court has heard in ASIC’s case over the casino’s money laundering failures.
Star Entertainment’s management and board cannot shirk responsibility for turning a blind eye to money laundering risks by pointing the finger at each other, ASIC has told a court.
A lawyer for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been grilled by a Federal Court judge for failing to file a defence in Clive Palmer’s case against the corporate watchdog.
HCF Life insurance has been hit with a $750,000 penalty for including a pre-existing condition term in a life insurance policy, which a judge found was likely to mislead.
The corporate watchdog has imposed additional conditions on Macquarie Bank’s financial services licence, citing multiple and significant compliance failures.
A business lender that issued personal loans is on the hook for unlicensed credit activity, but ASIC’s action against the director has failed, with a judge finding the regulator was “entirely indifferent” to the circumstances of the case.
Sunshine Loans wants the High Court to weigh in on an appeals court’s decision that overturned the recusal of a judge from deciding the penalty in ASIC’s case over unauthorised fees.