Category: Corporate Governance
Director Identification Numbers
Company directors required to sign up for director identification numbers under new anti-phoenixing scheme Australian company directors must sign up to a new director identification scheme designed to tackle illegal phoenixing activity under new laws unveiled by the Federal Government in October 2018. The long-awaited director identification numbers (DIN) draft legislation has been released by Treasury,…
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Breach of Director’s Duties
Many client’s seek our advice about director’s duties and corporate governance. Typically the issues we see range from director disagreements to more serious issues such as has a director breached their fiduciary and statutory director’s duties imposed on them by the Corporations Act 2001 or under the common law (judge made law) or some other document which…
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Sacking a managing director for serious misconduct
Without proper legal guidance, sacking a managing director of a company for serious misconduct can be a very risky business, particularly if the person is litigious, dishonest, or vexatious, or if they seek to hinder further investigation into underlying criminal activity such as fraud. At Boss Lawyers, we have assisted the boards of public companies,…
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