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• Competition and Consumer Law Round-Up - June 2026

  What's Inside This Issue? This edition of the K&L Gates Competition & Consumer Law Round-Up provides a summary of recent and significant updates from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), as well as other noteworthy developments in the competition and consumer law space.

• Japan-Australia Investment Report 2025: Partners in Economic Security

  HSF Kramer and The Australian National University are pleased to present the ninth annual Japan–Australia Investment Report. The 2025 edition provides a detailed analysis of the trends shaping one of Australia’s most significant bilateral investment relationships.

• 日豪投資レポート2025： 経済安全保障のパートナー

  HSF Kramer and The Australian National University are pleased to present the ninth annual Japan–Australia Investment Report. The 2025 edition provides a detailed analysis of the trends shaping one of Australia’s most significant bilateral investment relationships.

• ASX200 Listed Chairs Survey 2026 - Is Australia at risk of losing its best directors from the listed market?

  For decades, chairing an ASX200 company has represented the summit of Australian corporate leadership. It has long been viewed as a role reserved for the nation’s most trusted and influential directors. New findings from the HSF Kramer ASX200 Listed Chairs Survey 2026 reveal a concerning shift. The prestige of the listed market is no longer enough to retain many of Australia’s most experienced Chairs. This trend has significant implications for economic resilience, productivity, investment confidence and long-term competitiveness.

• Takeovers and Schemes of Arrangement In Australia - Legal Guide 2026 Edition

  The 2026 edition of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Guide to Takeovers and Schemes of Arrangement has been launched. Our Guide is designed to provide a helpful summary of some of the key legal and regulatory issues that arise in connection with Australian takeovers and schemes. This includes Australia's new merger control regime which came into effect on 1 January 2026.

• Australian Policyholder Highlights - 11th Edition

  We are delighted to bring you the the 11th edition of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer’s Australian Policyholder Highlights, which pulls together the key takeaways for insurance policyholders, their brokers and claims advisors from the most relevant insurance cases and market developments over the last 12 months.

• Employment & Workplace Relations In Australia Legal Guide

  Introduction - The Australian Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Employment, Industrial Relations and Safety team help our clients achieve success across the full range of workplace issues. In truth, the legal and social environment has never been more complex for employers. Issues of workplace relations, industrial relations, social expectations and risk management are far more interconnected than ever before.

• Australia’s New Mandatory and Suspensory Merger Regime: A Snapshot

  From 1 January 2026, parties to acquirers of shares or assets in Australia (or affecting Australia) must notify the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) if the acquisition satisfies certain monetary and “control” thresholds. Definitions of key terms (Australian revenue, connected entities, control and “all or substantially of the assets of a business”) are set out in the following pages.

• Australia’s class action future: Three critical questions every decision maker should ask

  Our Regulatory and Class Action Risk Symposium reflected the changing landscape of risk, regulation, and corporate accountability in Australia. In his opening address, Jason Betts, HSF Kramer’s Global Co-Head of Class Actions said...

• AUKUS and the AMC: Summary of Key State and Federal Government Announcements

  A series of major AUKUS, Australian Marine Complex (AMC), and defence-related publications and announcements have emerged that are set to significantly shape the future of defence in Western Australia.

Featured documents

• Passing on the carbon price: misleading and deceptive conduct and the ACCC as the new carbon cop

  The Federal Government recently announced the new responsibility of the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) to police carbon pricing claims and prevent businesses from using the carbon price as an excuse to increase prices beyond the Carbon Price Mechanism’s (CPM) actual cost...

• Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal to Order Minimum Conditions for Drivers

  On 1 July 2012, the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012 (Cth) (Act) came in to force imposing requirements on employers across the road transport industry to meet new remuneration and employment standards for their drivers. Importantly, one of the main functions of the Act was the establishment of...

• Water Trigger Becomes a Reality for Coal Mining and Coal Seam Gas Developments

  Senate Approves "Water Trigger" Amendment to EPBC Act - The "water trigger" amendment to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) was recently approved by Senate and has become law....

• Proposed Amendments to the Corporate Governance Principles

  In August last year, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) Corporate Governance Council (Council) undertook a review of the Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations (Recommendations) in response to the corporate governance failures that emerged in the aftermath of the Global Financial ...

• Large Retailer Fined for Violating Australia’s Product Safety Laws

  At the end of December, Dimmeys, a large Australian discount department store, was fined approximately $3 million dollars by an Australian court for violating Australia’s federal product safety laws for the fifth time. The retailer’s supplier, Starite Distributors, was fined $600,000, and the owner ...

• Developers Beware – Court of Appeal Clarifies the Effect of a Breach of the Sale of Land Act

  In Barker v Midstyle Nominees Pty Ltd [2014] WASCA 75, the West Australian Court of Appeal has considered the legal consequences of a developer entering into off the plan contracts in breach of Section 13 of the Sale of Land Act 1970 (WA) (Act). The Court unanimously held that contracts for the...

• August 2014: Insurance Litigation Update

  No Longer on the Hook for Indemnity: NY Court of Appeals Reverses Decision That Held Insurers Liable to Indemnify Where They Wrongly Refused to Defend a Claim. In a decision last year in K2 Investment Group, LLC v. American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Co., the New York Court of Appeals held...

• High Court Finds No Duty of Care From Builder to Owners Corporation

  The High Court has held that a builder of a serviced apartment complex does not owe a duty of care in negligence for financial loss arising from defects in common property to an owner's corporation (Brookfield Case). The serviced apartments were built by the builder under a design and...

• The Great Bottle Battle – Coke vs Pepsi

  On 28 November 2014, the Federal Court of Australia (Court) dismissed claims of trade mark infringement, misleading or deceptive conduct and passing off made by The Coca-Cola Company (Coke) against PepsiCo Inc, PepsiCo Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, and Schweppes Australia Pty Ltd, the manufacturer...

• A New Australian Standard (AS 11000) to Replace the General Conditions of Contract (AS 4000 and AS 2124)

  The AS 4000 and AS 2124 General Conditions of Contract are widely used forms of procurement in the Australian construction industry. A technical committee has recently drafted a new standard form contract (AS 11000) to supersede these previous forms....