Law Firms

Real estate landlord Dexus is suing South Australia's medical research insitute for failing to execute on 30-year leases to occupy Adelaide's Australian Bragg Centre, despite "repeated demands".

Clayton Utz has become the latest tenant in a new commercial precinct under development in Canberra's CBD.

A court's finding that EnergyAustralia is on the hook for portable long service leave for maintenance workers at its Yallourn power station because its "significant' maintenance activities mean it's 'in the construction industry' could affect energy, rail and telecommunications firms.

The applicant in a failed class action by members of NAB's MLC Super fund can't access a settlement deed in a separate class action against the fund trustee, which resolved days after the applicant's case was thrown out.

ASIC has won winding up orders against investment firm Falcon Capital and its managed investment scheme First Guardian Master Fund, after raising concerns about potential risks to investors. 

After running a successful campaign to remove three board members, major Keybridge shareholder WAM Active has convinced a court to end the investment company's administration after it provided a letter of comfort and offer to fund its debts.

An automotive law expert has joined Moray & Agnew as a partner in the firm's corporate and commercial practice.

Clive Palmer has appealed a court's decision to toss his lawsuits against former Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton alleging he acted in bad faith when the regulator filed criminal proceedings against him.

The funder behind a class action against Transport for NSW over the $16 billion WestConnex project has lost another appeal in its ongoing spat with the lead applicants.

That it once had a $100,000 bank cheque is not sufficient evidence to prove a funder behind a class action over the $16 billion WestConnex tunnel can meet a costs order in a feud with the applicants, an appeals court has said.