Not for Profits & Charities: Current Directors Duties & Restructuring Options
Issues covered include: director duties, Corporations Act, ACNC, restructuring
Description
With COVID-19 significantly impacting not for profits & charities don’t miss this opportunity to examine unique challenges in the current environment including changing duties for directors and temporary ‘safe harbour’ provisions. Explore these issues and gain necessary strategies for surviving, recovering and restructuring in the current environment.
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Alison Choy Flannigan, Partner, Hall and Wilcox
Not for Profits & Charities: Current Directors Duties & Restructuring Options
- Corporations Act and ACNC providing a temporary ‘safe harbour’ for directors
- Other directors duties not affected
- Strategies to survive and recover
- Survival models
- Restructuring options
Presented by Gavin Robertson, Principal Lawyer, Macpherson Kelley and John Keenan, Principal, BRI Ferrier
Presenters
Gavin Robertson is a Principal Lawyer at Macpherson Kelley, a commercial law firm with offices in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. He has served as a director of several charities and has acted on commercial transactions involving not for profits, including a merger between two industry bodies. He specialises in corporate and commercial law, acting mostly for public companies listed on ASX. He advises on regulated transactions, such as takeovers, capital raisings, restructurings and administrations. He also advises on Corporate Governance matters including Directors Duties. He is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and has presented on such topics as “Is your Board a Train Wreck Waiting to Happen?” and “Listed Public Companies in Insolvency”.
John Keenan is a Chartered Accountant and principal with BRI Ferrier, a national practice specialising in corporate restructuring for businesses in both growth or distress situations. John’s expertise extends from advising boards in difficult circumstances, to taking control of businesses through formal appointments such as Voluntary Administration. He has experience in many industries including financial services, retail, listed entities, manufacturing, insurance, clubs and not-for-profit entities. On numerous assignments, he has sold businesses, introduced new