Cat Fredenburgh

King & Wood Mallesons has made a key hire, luring a competition pro who worked on the ACCC's merger reform team just months before a new mandatory merger review framework is set to take effect.

Two Suncorp units and insurer TAL Life have agreed to pay $34 million to settle a class action over allegedly worthless add-on insurance sold at car dealerships.

Sydney's landmark Crystal Palace Hotel has been sold after 45 years to Feros family-owned JDA Hotels.

Woodside has signed off on the development of a $27 billion LNG facility in Louisiana that will see the company become one of the world's largest producers of natural gas by the 2030s.

Developer VSD Investments has lost an argument for withholding an $8.5 million payment claim from the builder of a 30-storey project in Sydney's inner west pending the construction company's appeal.

Engineering firm Monadelphous will acquire a Perth-based provider of high-voltages services for $21.5 million.

Self-storage investor National Storage REIT has acquired a stake in rival Abacus Storage Kings, which is currently mulling a $1.9 billion takeover offer from a rival.

Keybridge CEO Nick Bolton has won a stay of orders ending the company's administration as he appeals that ruling and another that found he and two other directors were validly removed and replaced at a board meeting.

The owner of the Seasons of Perth Hotel seeks want to quash a review determination of an adjudicator's decision in its dispute with hotel construction company Reward Group over performance bonds for work on the hotel.