New Zealand

In 2017, Ron Salter, and his waste fuel collection business, Salters Cartage Ltd, were convicted for a series of breaches of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996.  

It is not often that a person is sentenced to prison for breaching the Resource Management Act.  It is even more infrequent that such convictions are overturned on appeal.

With equity markets continuing to be subdued, and large corporates coming under balance sheet/earnings pressure as a result of inflation and a period of contracted demand, private capital, in all its forms, has become a dominant influence in global M&A.

Generative AI, a subset of artificial intelligence that relies on large quantities of data, neural network architecture, and complex algorithms to produce original content, is rapidly transforming the business landscape.