Law Firms

A judge has awarded private equity firm CPE Capital, formerly CHAMP, $96 million in a dispute over a profit sharing agreement that was part of a deal to provide $150 million in vendor finance to FX Group Holdings for shares in trading platform Pepperstone.

Human rights and press freedom activists want to intervene in a High Court case over copyright ownership in abattoir footage obtained by trespass, saying the broader public interest might be affected by the case.

Mineral Resources has won a bid for more documents in its fight with the Pilbara Ports Authority over the validity of a channel charge, which it argues was imposed to cover amounts owed to Chevron for construction costs. 

Mineral Resources has won a bid for more documents in its fight with the Pilbara Ports Authority over the validity of a channel charge. 

Lander & Rogers has hired a disputes lawyer from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer to join its Brisbane-based commercial disputes practice as a partner. 

The Victorian planning minister has told the High Court that IGA can't bring a lawsuit over a local council amendment allowing up to four supermarkets in the town of Shepparton, saying the case does raise a jurisdictional error. 

The University of Sydney is seeking to push back the trial date in its six-year-old case against Multiplex over alleged defects at the Charles Perkins Centre, alleging it has recently discovered new problems with the building.

MinterEllison has expanded its private capital team, hiring two leveraged finance specialists from Gilbert + Tobin.

The director of a documentary about a US narcotics officer during the 1990s 'war on drugs' has won his copyright suit against the film's producers, with a judge finding his moral rights under the Copyright Act were infringed by their failure to credit him as the director.

Aged care provider Bupa can't challenge the dismissal of its bid for a quick win in a class action over the standard of care at its facilities, despite a court noting the case has "some curiosities".