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Monadelphous Group has won a $110 million contract with offshore engineer BW Opal to provide maintenance services at a facility off the coast of Darwin.

A bid by the Victorian Liberal Party to summarily toss a challenge to a $1.5 million advance made to former leader John Pesutto for defence costs in a defamation suit has failed, with a court finding there is a case to be tried about the validity of the loan.

Class action settlements hit major milestones last year, with the year’s largest settlements totalling $1.6 billion and one case resolving for a historic $548.5 million.

Reforms to Australia's merger review regime kicked in on 1 January, but late-breaking amendments to the new laws mean changes to notification thresholds and further exemptions.

Swiss-based investment firm Partners Group has exited the Australian wind market, selling its stake in a 242-megawatt wind farm in Victoria to Spanish energy company Iberdrola.

Lawyerly will be closed from 24 December until 8 January.

Fresh off being sued by ASIC for investing $300 million into Falcon Capital’s failed First Guardian Master Fund, super trustee Diversa has been hit with additional licence conditions by the prudential regulator.

Ashurst has nabbed a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright to join its global projects and energy transition team.

The publisher of The Australian has hit back at a defamation case by a former JLL executive, saying it was substantially true that he fondled a drunk junior female colleague's breast at a strip club. 

The ACCC has opposed Yamaha Motor's proposed acquisition of aluminium trailer boat maker Telwater, saying it would result in the substantial lessening of competition in the wholesale supply of outboard motors.