Pinsent Masons

Pinsent Masons has lured a PwC partner to bolster its energy offering in Melbourne.

Global law firm Clifford Chance has launched a construction practice in Australia after nabbing a special council from Pinsent Masons to lead the group.

In a new suit against the developer of an abandoned $185 million project in Sydney, Shinetec has asked the court to declare its priority interest in a $48 million payment recently paid to the developer by Bank of China.

Shinetec, the Australian arm of China’s Shanxi Construction Investment Group, has won orders restraining the developer of an abandoned $185 million project in NSW from accessing $48 million paid to it by Bank of China.

After describing the $836 million project for a new Sydney Fish Market as “an architecturally designed death knell to the NSW seafood industry”, the market operator has mostly lost its application to make Infrastructure NSW hand over 100 project documents.

A Qube unit and a developer have lost their $20 million claim alleging the Department of Defence failed to properly address asbestos contamination on leased land which was redeveloped into a terminal facility in Moorebank. 

A stay of a $37 million 2023 judgment in favour of the company behind an abandoned $185 million development in Gosford NSW against the Australian arm of China's Shanxi Construction Investment Group has been extended.

Pinsent Masons has hired two special counsel to boost its corporate and planning and environment practice areas.

The High Court has declined a request by Shinetec for it to weigh in a dispute over an abandoned $185 million development in Gosford, NSW.