May 2023
ASIC charges Vaughan Bowen with insider trading, again
The corporate regulator and ex-Vocus chairman Vaughan Bowen are set to lock horns again over allegations of insider trading relating to the sale of Vocus shares in 2019.
- Max Mason and Lucas Baird
December 2022
Insider trading counts against Vaughan Bowen discharged
Uniti Group executive director and ex-Vocus chairman Vaughan Bowen will no longer face insider trading charges after he was discharged in a Melbourne court.
- Max Mason
March 2022
It’s all happening for Uniti’s Vaughan Bowen
A takeover offer and a court appearance were all in a day’s work for the Uniti executive director.
- Myriam Robin
September 2021
Uniti Group, investors back Bowen despite insider trading allegations
Mr Bowen – the founder of M2 and former chairman of Vocus – is facing two charges of insider trading over the sale of 5.6 million Vocus shares on June 4, 2019.
- Lucas Baird and Max Mason
Trading that came unstuck: Australia’s insider trading cases
The maximum sentence has been increased in recent years from five years in jail to a stretch of 15.
- Max Mason
- Updated
- Courts
Vaughan Bowen denies insider trading charges
Former Vocus executive and founder of M2 Vaughan Bowen will fight two charges of insider trading relating to the sale of Vocus shares in 2019.
- Max Mason and Lucas Baird
February 2021
Acquisition costs weigh on Uniti’s bottom line
An acquisition-spree through the back-half of 2020 has weighed heavily on rapidly rising revenue and earnings at challenger telco Uniti Group.
- Lucas Baird
October 2020
Escrow fight at OptiComm
Aware Super (the old First State) last week made a loosening of OptiComm's escrow arrangements a precondition of its current bid for the company.
- Myriam Robin
September 2020
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How a junior telco snookered a $130b super giant
Vaughan Bowen's Uniti has delivered a revised bid for OptiComm that might just knock a rival bidder, the $130 billion super fund Aware Super, out of the race.
- Updated
- James Thomson
First State Super enters bidding war for NBN challenger
Superannuation giant First State Super has made a last-minute counter-bid for telecoms company Opticomm, potentially derailing an acquisition by Uniti which was two days away from being sealed.
- Updated
- James Fernyhough
August 2020
Small cap darlings' merger challenge
Two small cap darlings are set to merge - but there's one persistent question that keeps being asked.
- Jemima Whyte
August 2019
Bowen's Uniti snaps up fibre company, readies $100m raising
The second coming of telecomunications bigwig Vaughan Bowen is about to hit a high note.
- Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald