All Articles From Sandy Donaldson
Crowd-Sourced Funding for Private Companies
Crowd-sourced equity funding (CSF) is now available for proprietary companies. Up until recently, CSF was only available to qualifying unlisted public companies. As the vast number of companies…
Time To Review Documents With Warranties to Consumers
Mandatory Conditions For Services as Well as Goods
DW Fox Tucker’s “Best Lawyer” Awards List Grows, New Additions & Another “Lawyer of the Year”
The 12th annual “Best Lawyer Awards” have been announced by the Australian Financial Review, and DW Fox Tucker is delighted to confirm that our total listings have grown once again. We’ve expanded…
“The Thorn Birds Between Two Roses”: Conflicting Wills
Australia’s famous author of “The Thorn Birds”, Colleen McCullough (who died in 2015) provided a great source of entertainment through her writing for generations. It is now her life narrative that…
Parallel Universes Converge: Trade Mark Act Amendments
An act with the lengthy title Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity Commission Response Part 1 and Other Measures) Act 2018 [Amending Act] was passed by both Houses of the Commonwealth…
ATO Raids
Roasting the Phoenix The Phoenix according to Greek and Roman mythology is a bird that lives for centuries and then is consumed by fire and rises again. It was a benign mythology symbolising concepts…
“As Told by Hassold”: A Tale of Many Wills
We were instrumental in getting this tale over the line earlier this year and now we take the time to reflect on the work required to ensure the testamentary wishes of Mr Hassold are upheld following…
Do You Own Your Trade Mark?
A trade mark may be one of the most valuable assets of a business. It may be a name, a word or words, or a logo, or a combination of these. Use by Other Entities It is common in business groups for…
EU Data Bomb: Australian Collateral Damage
On 25 May 2018 the European Union [EU or Union] General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR] came into effect. The GDPR is a law directed to the protection of privacy and personal information, like the…
Buried in the Budget: Directors in the Firing Line
In the Harry Potter books the members of the Order of the Phoenix are the good guys struggling against Lord Voldemort and the corrupt Ministry of Magic. To the Federal government and ASIC, however,…
DWFT Report
The DWFT Report is a comprehensive publication containing news, commentary and analysis of significant contemporary legal issues impacting the Australian business community.
