Pinsent Masons

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.

The company behind an abandoned $185 million development in Gosford, NSW can't lift a stay on a $37 million judgment it won against the Australian unit of China's Shanxi Construction Group.

Pinsent Masons has nabbed a new partner and special counsel from DLA Piper to join the firm's corporate group.

An arrangement to restructure Queensland labour hire services company Comlek has survived a challenge by the state's revenue office, which wanted the business wound up, claiming the restructure was against public interest and commercial morality.

Law firm Pinsent Masons has lured two partners from KPMG Law to head a team of six lawyers for its new technology, media and telecommunications team in Australia. 

Former Pinsent Masons lawyer George Varma has been recruited to Gilbert + Tobin's energy and resources team, marking the second lateral hire for the firm's Perth office this financial year.