Julia Kanapathippillai

Allens has advised Spark Renewables on a successful bid for access rights for its Dinawan Energy hub project.

A specialist private equity lawyer with over 20 years of experience has joined King & Wood Mallesons private capital team as a partner.

Directors of a family-run construction company that caused a landslide resulting in a couple's NSW Central Coast home being "effectively worthless" has been ordered to pay over $2 million dollars.

Two former Herbert Smith Freehills partners who specialise in infrastructure law have joined forces to launch  a new legal and advisory firm.

Property investor Harry Stamoulis is reportedly in talks to buy an office tower on Melbourne's Collins Street for $200 million.

Boab Metals has agreed to buy a processing plant for $10 million from copper ore company Sandfire.

Two Nine in-house lawyers, as well as senior editors and journalists, are facing a contempt of court bid by individuals who are the subject of a suppression order in journalist Antoinette Lattouf's unfair dismissal case against the ABC.

In their fight against oral subpoenas they say are fishing for broader grounds of appeal, counsel for two MinterEllison lawyers said on Tuesday that a silk acting for Ben Roberts-Smith should apologise for remarks in open court last week.

A business lender that issued personal loans is on the hook for unlicensed credit activity, but ASIC's action against the director has failed, with a judge finding the regulator was "entirely indifferent" to the circumstances of the case.