DLA Piper has hired a former Hogan Lovells counsel to serve as a partner in its Sydney based technology practice. Technology and real estate lawyer Mark Bennett joins the firm from Hogan Lovells, where he served as special counsel. The third partner appointed to the firm in Australia since the new year, Bennett has over…
Two Nine in-house lawyers, as well as senior editors and journalists, are facing a contempt of court bid by individuals who are the subject of a suppression order in journalist Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case against the ABC.
In new allegations, a former Super Retail Group exec claims she and a fellow whistleblower were threatened by CEO Anthony Heraghty at a mediation and that the company appointed a conflicted law firm to investigate her complaints.
A former cryptocurrency boss who faces a criminal investigation by ASIC is on the hook for a $10.3 million Bitcoin payout to a former employee, a court has found.
Two former Herbert Smith Freehills partners who specialise in infrastructure law have joined forces to launch a new legal and advisory firm.
Real estate investment firms Dexus and Ho-Group have convinced the valuer general of NSW to knock roughly $26 million off its initial valuation of a Sydney office sold by Ho-Group last year that was used in a land tax assessment.
In a “unique approach” to public-private partnerships, Corrs Chambers Westgarth has advised the sponsors and contractors on a landmark project for Australia’s first renewable energy zone.
A judge has declined to make orders blocking a general meeting of the members of Cryptai, a company with a significant shareholding in Sam Altman-backed Ai company Rain Neuromorphics, in order to consider a share sale.
The owner of a patent for software allowing users to download live television that is suing Foxtel for $12 million has been ordered to cough up $260,000 in security.
King & Wood Mallesons has made a key hire, luring a competition pro who worked on the ACCC’s merger reform team just months before a new mandatory merger review framework is set to take effect.