Law Firms

Property developer Casey Group is weighing a cross-claim against Rossdale Golf Club in response to proceedings launched by Interpac unit Brencorp, which alleges Casey devised an "underhand deal" to block its acquisition of the southeast Melbourne club.

A judge has approved a bid to drop claims on behalf of 340 property owners in a class action against Sydney developer Mulpha over a 683-lot development in Glenmore Park. 

AstraZeneca has denied claims by Pharmacor that a patent for its diabetes drug Forxiga is invalid and that an extension of the patent's term was wrongly granted.

The consumer watchdog has launched proceedings against Kmart for allegedly breaching the Australian Consumer Law by selling cosmetic nail glue without warnings and products with non-compliant button batteries.

Hall & Wilcox has bolstered its corporate and commercial practice with two partners and a team of three lawyers from K&L Gates.

An appeals court has found US drug maker Cosette could not rely on sales performance figures to justify its termination of a $672 million merger agreement with Mayne Pharma Group. 

Insurer IAG has argued Greensill investor White Oak failed to verify the existence of $140 million in receivables for fear the deal wouldn't go ahead -- conduct, it says, that was “redolent of a deal that is too good to be true”. 

Optus has won an appeal against a council's decision to refuse its plan to build a telecommunications tower in Killcare Heights on NSW's Central Coast.

Dashing hopes for a more "compelling" offer, US private equity firm Warburg Pincus has advised land lease and retirement village operator Ingenia Communities that its $2.14 billion takeover bid is its best and final offer.

Traditional land owners in the central Pilbara have sought to declass a group proceeding over waste from the Wittenoom asbestos mines, after the WA government argued claims predating the Federal Court’s class action regime were barred.