In early July, Insto magazine and Mallesons hosted a roundtable on future financial markets regulation, with participation from a wide-cross section of the industry.
According to research by the mergers & acquisitions intelligence service mergermarket, a total of 293 deals worth A$62bn were announced in Australia for the 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009 financial year. Some stats and comments from mergermarket: