Cat Fredenburgh

A senior counsel who represented the Department of Defence in a PFAS class action that settled for $132.7 million and a silk who helped Keybridge Capital defeat a suit by investor Nicholas Bolton have been appointed judges on the NSW Supreme Court.

The Takeovers Panel has found Cosette cannot close a Mayne Pharma drug manufacturing plant in Adelaide, another win for Mayne in its push to block the US drug maker from walking away from their $672 million merger.

Family-owned Marlow Hotel Group has acquired the Silverwater Hotel in Sydney's west for a reported $77 million.

Hong Kong-based Link REIT has made a play to acquire three of five Lendlease shopping centre assets that comprise a $2.9 billion property fund that are being sold down amid a slew of redemption requests.

The developer of a 17-storey social housing in Greenborough, Victoria has filed a lawsuit against Melbourne developer Alpha14 Property Group seeking declarations that it has no interest in the property. 

The Foreign Investment Review Board has extended the deadline for ruling on Cosette's proposed $672 million takeover of Mayne Pharma.

Lendlease has announced it will sell down the assets in an unlisted retail property fund the real estate giant has fought to maintain control over in order to meet redemption requests.

Optus has been hit with a penalty of more than $826,000 after scammers exploited a vulnerability in its third-party verification system and stole $39,000 from customers' bank accounts.

Mike Cannon-Brookes' SunCable has signed a 70-year land use agreement with Traditional Owners to develop the country's largest solar farm at Powell Creek Station in the Northern Territory. 

A court has rejected a bid to expand a lawsuit over a Chinese investor's $27.5 million contract to purchase a building at 99 Queen Street in Melbourne to join the matriarch of the "very wealthy" family.