Lendlease’s appeal of the NSW Valuer General’s land value determinations of luxury residential tower One Circular Quay has prevailed.
Advised by Arnold Bloch Leibler, fund manager Merricks Capital has sold the $155M Melbourne Place Hotel after it opened in the Paris end of the CBD in December.
Real estate lawyer Vicki Aron has joined Clayton Utz’s Sydney office as a partner after seven years at Ashurst.
Global law firm Jones Day has recruited two corporate partners from rival Hogan Lovells to join its transactions team in Sydney.
Property developer Drivas has lost its court fight over plans for a nine-storey tower atop the heritage-listed Murrays Building in Parramatta’s Centenary Square.
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis is challenging the loss of its case against Sydney-based generics company Pharmacor over a patent for heart medication Entresto.
Construction materials giant Boral has pleaded guilty to interfering with Indigenous relics at a Hobart quarry.
Real estate company Flemington Properties has won $5 million from Ausgrid in a commercial rent dispute, with a judge finding the state corporation was effectively asking the court to rewrite the parties’ agreement.
The competition regulator plans to block a group of Catholic hospital operators from collectively boycotting large private health insurers in the event funding negotiations fail.
The firm that represented the funder of the notorious Banksia class action faces potential proceedings by a group of debenture holders. Meanwhile, Banksia’s receiver wants a court direction that he is justified in not pursuing the lawyers.