Breaches of continuous disclosure provisions
January 20, 2017
This brief list tracks ASIC interventions and successful class actions related to breaches of continuous disclosure laws.
Aristocrat: eventually settled for $144.5 million. See this case summary from Maurice Blackburn website.
AMP: agreed to pay a $100,000 fine in 2002 after ASIC took action over continuous disclosure breaches.
AWB: settled a class action funded by IMF for $39.5 million in 2010. See ASX announcement.
Centro: IMF is funding a class action for breaches of continuous disclosure. See this case summary.
Jubilee Mines: a former managing director received $1.8 million because he sold shares at a time when the company should have disclosed a lucrative nickel discovery. See Tress Cox case summary.
Leighton Holdings: agreed to pay $300,000 fine to ASIC in April 2011 for being too slow in issuing a profit downgrade related to its Victorian desalination plant and Brisbane Airport projects. A projected $480 million profit suddenly became a $427 million loss.
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