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PricewaterhouseCoopers has won access to communications between a Chinese lender and its lawyers at Baker McKenzie in a legal stoush over a failed bid to launch the first Chinese bank incorporated in Australia.
Ashurst has become the second Big Six firm to up its bonus game to reward staff for the firm's strong performance during the coronavirus pandemic, doubling its bonus pool for the year and promising staff a one-time £1,000 special reward.
The litigation funder that backed a dismissed employment class action against aviation service provider Airservices Australia has successfully argued that it should not bear the company's costs of defending the case
Three units of Hong Kong private equity group Argonaut have successfully defended an appeal by former Atrum Coal director Russell Moran who was ordered to repay $6 million plus interest after defaulting on a loan he had "no capacity" to repay.
A bid by KPMG to push off the filing of its defence in a class action over misleading statements ahead of Arrium's $754 million capital raising in 2014 has been shot down by a judge, who said the auditor has known the claims against it since November.
A Sydney criminal lawyer who alleges two Daily Telegraph articles defamed him by implying he was too old and deaf to represent clients has told a judge he doesn't attend court much because he's the "boss" at his law firm, not because he has suffered hearing loss.
ASIC has fired back at iSignthis' defence to the regulator's claims that it violated the Corporations Act by not disclosing $3 million in one-off revenue related to integration agreements, saying it was not the job of its compliance officials to school the fintech on its disclosure obligations.
Ashurst has snagged a long-time commercial litigation partner from Clayton Utz as part of a planned “major expansion” of its disputes team.
A judge has allowed Woolworths to include details of its internal pay review processes in an opt out notice to be sent to disgruntled current and former employees who have launched a class action against the supermarket giant.
The company behind the Peloton interactive exercise bike, which has amassed a cult following in the US during the coronavirus pandemic, has taken legal action against a California-based fitness company seeking the removal of its 'spinning' trade mark ahead of Peloton's planned launch in Australia.