Law Academic Co-authors New Edition of Leading Securities Law Treatise

Melbourne Law School’s Pamela Hanrahan, Director of Studies of the School's graduate program in Banking and Financial Services Law and Deputy Director of the University's Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, is co-author of a new edition of the leading Australian securities law treatise, Securities and Financial Services Law.

Dr Hanrahan, one of Australia's foremost experts in the areas of funds management law and financial services regulation, co-wrote the new edition with Professor Bob Baxt AO, a professorial fellow at Melbourne Law School and partner at Freehills, and Ashley Black, a partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques who is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney.

The work, published by LexisNexis Butterworths in October, provides a thorough and authoritative analysis of the regulatory regime that applies to issuers of securities and other financial products, to financial intermediaries (such as brokers and advisors) and to financial market operators in Australia, and of the market conduct and takeovers laws that govern financial markets.