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Key Insights from the Corporate Counsel Summit – Shaping Tomorrow’s Legal Landscape

TransPerfect Legal on 6/9/2023

The Corporate Counsel Summit in Sydney, hosted by Lawyers Weekly, brought together more than 300 legal professionals from various industries to discuss the evolving role of in-house lawyers and the emerging challenges they...more

Australian Financial Services Regulatory Update - August 2022

Jones Day on 8/30/2022

This edition of the Update covers: - Recent legal and regulatory developments, including the commencement of cyber security incident notification obligations for critical financial market infrastructure assets, AUSTRAC's...more

Managing cyber security risks: key learnings from Australia’s first test case

A&O Shearman on 7/6/2022

For the first time in Australia, a court has held in an action brought by Australia’s financial services regulator, ASIC, that the failure by a company to have adequate risk management systems in place to manage cybersecurity...more

Australian Financial Services Regulatory Update - December 2021

Jones Day on 12/1/2021

This edition of the Update covers: KEY LEGAL AND REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS Regulatory Priorities ASIC and APRA Release Their Corporate Plans for 2021-25 On 26 August 2021, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission...more

Accountability for Cybersecurity in Australia—A Major Regulatory and Litigation Risk

Jones Day on 12/16/2020

There are showers, there are squalls, and there are storms. The growth in cybersecurity attacks in Australia, as in much of the world, is a storm and Australian companies need to batten down the hatches. In the period from 1...more

Blockchain 51% Attacks – Lessons Learned for Developers and Trading Platform Operators

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law on 2/13/2020

Once purely theoretical, “majority” or “51%” attacks on public blockchains have dealt participants a reality check: The fundamental assumption of Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper (that computing power will remain...more

Blockchain Attacks and the Fight for Immutability

Perkins Coie on 2/22/2019

The Ethereum Classic blockchain was the victim of a 51% attack (often called a majority or Sybil attack) on January 5, 2019 that reorganized portions of the blockchain and allowed the attackers to double-spend 219,500 ETC...more

Cyber Resilience for Financial Services Entities

K&L Gates LLP on 5/20/2015

In March this year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), issued Report 429 Cyber resilience: Health check (REP 429). The report aims to highlight the importance of cyber resilience for entities...more

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