Cat Fredenburgh

Macquarie Asset Management has made an offer to acquire Qube which values the infrastructure giant at $11.6 billion.

German pharmaceutical company Heidelberg Pharma has filed a lawsuit against Australian drug maker Telix alleging breach of a licence agreement for its kidney cancer diagnostic drug Zircaix. 

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has blocked Cosette's $672 million takeover of Mayne Pharma on national interest grounds after the US drug maker threatened to close a critical drug facility in Adelaide.

HWL Ebsworth has lured the former head of Piper Alderman's national real estate practice to join its office in South Australia.

The ABC has defeated a defamation suit by the owner of a defunct online travel agency Bestjet, with a judge finding the article in question did not convey that he was to blame for the collapse of the business.

Moray & Agnew has added three lawyers to its government practice, including a partner who joins the firm from HWL Ebsworth. 

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.