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The former majority owner of NY-based Infrastructure Capital Holdings has won its bid for documents ahead of mediation in a suit alleging Foresight Group Holdings undervalued the company's investments in Kinetic and Zenith Energy, which sold for a combined $5.7 billion last year.

A group of shareholders is pushing Commonwealth Bank to take steps to outline how its financing will become deforestation-free, claiming the bank's disclosures have not captured deforestation risks.

Fulton Hogan has won a contract for a major expansion project at Adelaide Airport, part of a $20 billion wave of infrastructure investment at the country's major airports.

A landowner that lost a bid to remove a section of the Grand Pacific Walk north of Wollongong because the popular walkway deprived it of car access to its coastal property has taken its fight with the council to the High Court.

James Hardie is facing another shareholder class action over the building materials company's representations to the market about its North American fibre cement business. 

A consortium of Acciona and John Holland and two other groups of tunnelling experts have been shortlisted for a project to develop plans for the Sydney high speed rail project.

ASIC has won its case alleging health and beauty giant McPherson’s breached its continuous disclosure obligations and engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct by failing to update the market sooner about declining sales forecasts for its Dr LeWinn's skincare line.

A major growth plan for Sydney Airport in response to a jump in predicted demand has won approval from the federal government, which pointed to the airport's role as a key gateway to Australia.

Engineering firms Arup and WSP have won a contract to progress planning for a freight rail connection to the new Westport container terminal in Kwinana.