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Shareholders of Xenith IP have voted to approve a hard-fought takeover proposal by Australia's largest intellectual property services firm IPH, in a deal that will create an IP services giant employing a staff of over 1,000 across the Asia Pacific.
The competition watchdog has signed off on a proposed merger of AP Eagers and Automotive Holdings Group, Australia's two biggest auto retailers, on the condition that AP Eagers divest two new car dealerships.
A Federal Court judge has admitted he insulted an applicant in a case against the Commonwealth when he inadvertently sent her an email meant for his associate, in which he sarcastically used the word "sigh" in response to the applicant advising the court of her hospitalisation.
Collapsed engineering and construction company Forge Group has agreed to settle a shareholder class action over alleged continuous disclosure breaches, which will see the funder pocket about $7.5 million.
Former King & Wood Mallesons managing partner Stuart Fuller will take the reins of KPMG's global legal services division, the first Australian at the helm of the Big Four firm's legal offering.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has brought legal action against debt collector Panthera Finance for alleged harassment, six months after the watchdog secured a $750,000 fine against Australia's largest debt collector.
Law firm HWL Ebsworth is due in court Wednesday for a hearing in its challenge to a judgment awarding an expelled partner $450,000 in damages for his "irrational and wrong" dismissal.
A judge has slapped a $10 million fine on online supplement company Peptide Clinics for advertising prescription-only drugs in breach of the Therapeutic Goods Act.
Pitcher Partners has lost it challenge to a ruling socking it with a $5.6 million bill for an accounting error concealed from client Neville's Bus Service, with an appeals court saying there was a "clear and principled basis" to require the accounting firm to pay the sum awarded for loss and damage to the transport company.
Defence shipbuilder Austal faces legal action by the corporate regulator challenging claims of privilege over documents sought as part of a probe into disclosures linked to cost overruns on the company's $4 billion US Navy ship-building program.