Corporate

Food delivery service HungryPanda wants to lift a stay in a case against competitor Fantuan over the acquisition of delivery platform EASI, after a $24 million judgment was entered in related UK proceedings.

Property developer Villawood has argued that a company incorporated to manage a project in regional Victoria can't withdraw admissions over an alleged fraudulent scheme by a former director to divert management fees. 

Former Today host Karl Stefanovic is being sued by his podcast business partner, who alleges oppressive conduct and is seeing a buyout of her shares. 

Growing its global private capital team, Ashurst Perkins Coie has lured a Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer solicitor to join its corporate practice as a partner in Melbourne.

Former Keystone Asset Management director Paul Chiodo has agreed not to raise money for his property fund Royce Capital after ASIC alleged the fund was secretly being used to cover his legal fees in the regulator’s enforcement action.

Responding to growing US investment in local markets, Johnson Winter Slattery will become the first Australian firm to open a US office advising on Australian law. 

Steel trader Macsteel International has won an injunction barring its former chief financial officer from disclosing or using its confidential information, after he downloaded almost 10,000 documents containing sensitive information. 

Privately-owned oil and gas exploration company Timor Resources has filed proceedings against its founder and the company's accountant, seeking access to deleted emails and Whatsapp messages.

A fight over the sale of Dexus' shares in Melbourne Airport operator APAC “may well” go to the High Court, a judge said Friday, as the infrastructure asset manager tells the court the sale may be in the “many billions of dollars".

A judge has ordered the parties in an investor class action against Virgin to consult with experts on how to use AI in an upcoming seven-week trial, one day after the judge made similar orders in a class action against Blue Sky.