Holman Webb Partner, Danny Adno, has advised on the sale of a market leading supplier and distributor of innovative value-added ingredients and all products, being the business conducted by Ingredients Resources Pty Limited, to Connell Bros., an Australian entity within the Wilbur-Ellis group of companies.

Directors may be personally liable for a Company’s failure to pay an Independent Contractor Superannuation

Two recent cases involving SMSF auditors highlight the potential liability of auditors in undertaking audits of SMSF’S and the need for auditors to obtain evidence to support the opinions expressed. Find out more in our April 2019 Accountant Update

Trade marks are core assets of many businesses, although unfortunately in Holman Webb's experience - they are often overlooked.

A few recent cases have highlighted just how important it is to ensure your trade mark arrangements are in place and, just as importantly, effective.

it is crucial to keep in mind that registering a trade mark is not the end of the process; there have been many cases of businesses ‘setting and forgetting’ their marks, only to have their registrations challenged.

Illegal phoenix activity involves the deliberate and systematic stripping and transferring of assets from one company to another company to avoid paying liabilities, such as tax or superannuation.  In these circumstances, the company directors strip out the cash and assets, liquidate the company and then re-commence the same or a similar business through a new corporate entity.

Anyone watching television over the Summer will have seen advertisements for the United Australia Party, led by Clive Palmer. In one version, a song is played with the lyrics ‘Australia ain't gonna cop it, no Australia's not gonna cop it, Aussies not gonna cop it any more.’

On 21 January 2019,  France’s data protection regulator, CNIL fined Google €50m ($80 million AUD) for breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Christmas is around the corner, which means retailers are getting ready for the busiest period of the year. What better time for a quick refresher on some consumer law issues? Here are a few tips to make sure Santa (the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission) doesn’t bring you a lump of coal (an infringement notice).

Holman Webb Partner Tal Williams talks to Lawyers Weekly about the future of signing your name, discussing various possibilities such as e-sigs, fingerprinting and retina scans. 

On October 10, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury took the first step toward implementing the recently enacted Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) by publishing new regulations that empower the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review transactions that were not previously subject to CFIUS scrutiny.