Leading market insights purposefully curated for directors, general counsel and company secretaries.
OnBoard delivers our leading market insights purposefully curated for directors, general counsel and company secretaries.
This newsletter is designed to support you in your roles as you lead your organisations through corporate governance matters, both now and in the future.
This issue looks at some of the most interesting and emerging governance events over the past quarter.
In This Edition
Insight
Whistleblower laws under review: Insights and impacts five years on
Nearly five years on from when the enhanced whistleblowing regime for private sector organisations was first introduced into Part 9.4AAA of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Corporations Act), it is becoming clearer to organisations what is expected of them in order to achieve compliance under the regime.
27 June 2024
Insight
ASX guidance on disclosure in a cyber breach: Sensible guidance but there’s more to think about
ASX updated Guidance Note 8 to include a new example addressing a cyber incident.
27 June 2024
Insight
The wash-up from consultation on the proposed 5th edition of the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations
The ASX Corporate Governance Council (Council) released the consultation draft for a proposed fifth edition of the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations (Fifth Edition) on 27 February 2024.
27 June 2024
Insight
Update on mandatory sustainability reporting in Australia
On 27 March 2024, the Treasurer introduced and read the Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and Other Measures) Bill 2024 (Bill) to the House of Representatives. The fourth schedule of the Bill sets out a new mandatory sustainability reporting regime.
27 June 2024
Insight
Three cheers for ASIC and its sensible no action position on a Deed of Cross Guarantee issue you may not have known existed
As those who have needed to deal with ASIC Deeds of Cross Guarantee and the associated ASIC Instrument 2016/785 can no doubt attest, the requirements that a corporate group needs to satisfy before its subsidiaries can benefit from the financial relief the instrument provides are anything but straight-forward.
27 June 2024
Insight
ASX50 Sustainability Reporting and Governance in 2023
The imminent introduction of mandatory sustainability reporting has prompted a significant shift in corporate Australia, with the ASX50 continuing to lead the way in dedicated climate disclosures.
27 June 2024
Publication
M&A in the City 2024: June
In this edition we take you down into the trenches to talk trends and tactics, but also take time to zoom out for a global look at the latest on M&A markets, major themes and the H2 outlook.
25 June 2024
Insight
KWM annual digest of judgments and proceedings against directors
In this digest we provide a summary of key judgments and proceedings against directors in Australian courts and tribunals in 2023.
14 June 2024
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