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Vehicle leasing company FleetPartners has reached an agreement to resolve a shareholder class action for $27 million.

Pop star Taylor Swift’s move to trade mark her voice and likeness is unlikely to succeed but it shows a major gap in regulating works created using artificial intelligence, experts say.

The founder of fintech Humm Group has agreed to step down from the board as he brings a High Court challenge over a Takeovers Panel ruling that found unacceptable circumstances in relation to a $385 million takeover offer by Credit Corp. 

Lander & Rogers has nabbed a finance partner from Corrs Chambers & Westgarth, who says his clients have been enthusiastic about his shift to a somewhat smaller firm. 

Addressing for the first time the question of compensation for 'future acts' under the Native Title Act, a judge has ordered Fortescue Metals Group to pay $150 million to compensate the Yinjibarndi people for losses stemming from the mining company's Solomon Hub iron ore project.

A judge has dismissed a bid to vacate an upcoming hearing in a dispute between two former directors of Golden Gate Property Group over a Carver's Reach development. 

An appeal by the buyers of a $2.3 million real estate business on the NSW Central Coast has fallen short, with a court finding that their solicitor's knowledge of a security charge was properly imputed to them. 

AkzoNobel has lost its bid to add new expert evidence after the conclusion of trial in a dispute with Inpex over allegedly defective anti-corrosive coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project.

The centrepiece of Tuesday night's budget are tax reforms aimed at capital gains, negative gearing and investment structures, with the Albanese government spruiking the changes as supporting new housing, while experts say the devil is in the detail.

Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed a partner from US firm Sidley Austin to join its Asia Pacific energy and infrastructure practice.