Pinsent Masons has nabbed a new partner and special counsel from DLA Piper to join the firm’s corporate group.
A team from Clyde & Co has made the jump to Colin Biggers & Paisley, following seasoned insurance partner Patrick Boardman.
Water treatment company Phoslock and auditor KPMG face a shareholder class action, but not by the law firm that secured documents for a potential case.
Holding Redlich has lost a veteran environment partner with extensive experience representing government clients and his team to Maddocks, marking the firm’s second lateral loss this week.
A class action has been filed in the High Court, challenging the detention of South Sudanese refugees in Australian detention centres.
The Treasurer is expected to introduce legislation on Thursday that will mandate review of mergers above a certain monetary threshold and tie-ups deemed “high risk”.
The Environmental Defenders Office can’t dodge a subpoena by Santos seeking material to back a bid for full indemnity costs in a failed case over a pipeline for the $5.6 billion Barossa gas project.
A ruling that clarified the materiality requirement in continuous disclosure cases could lead to more regulatory actions and activist shareholder claims, but won’t boost shareholder class actions, experts say.
Macpherson Kelley has recruited a property expert from Hall & Wilcox, as well as the former head of commercial litigation at SLF Lawyers and a tax lawyer from PCL Lawyers, in an expansion of its national team.
In a push toward gender parity, more than 30 per cent of the latest silks appointed in NSW are women, a percentage that mirrors the representation of women at the Bar.