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Quarterly update

What have we been up to?
April - June 2025

Work highlight examples

Corporate

  • Advising Autopact on the acquisition of McCarroll Motors, continuing the group’s strategic growth across New South Wales.
  • Acting for Hatch Financial Services on its merger with FMD Financial, a national wealth management firm, expanding FMD’s services to include lending. Our employment team advised on this matter.

Employment

  • Guiding and advising an HR department through an organisational restructuring impacting multiple departments.
  • Advising a transport logistics provider across its national operations on a wage compliance review, relating to multiple Enterprise Agreements and Modern Awards.

Disputes

Successfully resolved a complex directors and shareholders dispute that had been running for over two years, involving two concurrent Supreme Court proceedings and the separation of business and property interests.

Regulatory

Advising on illegal logging due diligence and risk mitigation for a premium flooring company seeking to import regulated timber products from a high-risk region.

Privacy and data

Advising a large retailer on a data breach involving thousands of customers arising from unauthorised access to the data via an employee of the retailer’s supplier.

Technology

Advising Janison Education Group (ASX:JAN) on its agreement renewal with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, valued at approximately $2 million, including the first commercial deployment of Janison’s new AI-powered platform, Jai.

Out and about

Kaye Ho and Raph Goldenberg addressed attendees at the Accord Australasia AGM , talking through key issues facing the cosmetics, personal care and household products sectors. From navigating the line between cosmetics and therapeutic goods, to the ACCC’s current focus on influencers, misleading reviews and greenwashing, the event drew a strong crowd. Hannah Pike and Carmen Parker also joined in the festivities and lively conversations at the Industry Leaders Dinner the night before.

Mark Waters and Andrew Maher jetted up to Sydney to present at the Independent Cinemas of Australia Conference and attend the gala dinner. The duo spoke about the challenges of casual employment in the cinema industry, from defining casual work to managing psychosocial hazards. They even snuck in a movie.

Drum roll please… We’re excited to announce that we’re the Foundation Legal Partner and a Gold Corporate Member of Women in Automotive. As a firm with deep roots in the automotive sector (and more than a few car nerds on our team), this partnership just makes sense. Thanks to the team at Women in Automotive for having us. We’re excited to be part of the journey (pun intended).

Directors duties

Tiffany Lucas and Mark Waters ran two webinars on directors’ duties with a specific look at governance and OH&S compliance. If you missed out on the masterclass, the webinar was recorded, so if you’d like to watch it on demand, please email events@cielegal.com.au.

Coming up

  • Is there anything that goes better together than lawyers and contracts? While we’re in the minority that LOVES contracts, we understand that complex language and complicated clauses aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. To sway you to our point of view, Jeremy Snow is presenting at the Crown Leadership International Group’s Contract Law Fundamentals for Non-Lawyers Masterclass on 30 July. The practical session will cover the ingredients for a good contract, how to unpack the terms and get out of a bad contract. Click here to register.
  • If you’re an employer looking for bite-sized practical updates on all things employment law, our Partner, Andrew Maher and Special Counsel, Ines Balint, are launching their podcast ‘We have this Employee……’ in August. With weekly 20-minute episodes, they’re a perfect accompaniment for your commute. If you have a burning employment issue you’d like them to discuss, we hear they’re open to requests.
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