Industries

Spanish infrastructure giant Acciona has dropped its bid to acquire the $500 million East Rockingham waste-to-energy project in Western Australia, after a lengthy review by the ACCC.

Two activist groups have launched fresh action against Woodside's North West Shelf gas project, after the energy company secured final government approval for an extension to the venture.

ASIC has secured winding up orders against Gold Coas- based ALAMMC Developments and a number of related companies amid concerns the property developer mismanaged millions of investors funds.

Ashurst has lured a senior tax partner from MinterEllison with substantial experience in real estate and infrastructure, a day after Corrs Chambers poached its global co-head of tax, who is an expert in the stamp duty. 

The publisher of the Herald Sun denies it defamed Victorian Liberal deputy leader Sam Groth and argues it's exempt from new privacy laws, in a defence to a lawsuit over reports on the timeline of the politician's relationship with his wife.

ASX-listed biotech 4D Medical has sued competitor Cyclopharm alleging the company made false, misleading and malicious statements about its rival during an online webinar prompted by a "fake" question.

The applicants in a case over strip searches conducted of female passengers on a Qatar Airways flight at Doha Airport want the airline to produce any communications with other planes, and to do so by month's end.

Boroondara City Council has told a court that builder ADCO was “particularly motivated” to not provide a parent company guarantee under a $59 million contract to develop the Kew Recreation Centre after the roof of the building collapsed during the construction. 

A prefab home builder has filed an application with the High Court after it was ordered to pay $500,000 in damages for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct to convince a couple to vary their contract to allow the use of cladding they had previously rejected.

Corrs Chambers Westgarth has snagged a tax partner from Ashurst with special expertise in the stamp duty, amid an ASIC review into the rule requiring superannuation funds to disclose stamp duties as fees.