Adelaide lawyer Jason Karas must pay $41 million to his former business partner and law firm after he was found to have covertly negotiated to sell the firm’s Hong Kong-based entity while in the throes of ending the partnership.
Kennedys has lured a lawyer away from Wotton Kearney to join the healthcare practice in its Brisbane office.
The peak body for barristers in Australia has reinstated its diversity and inclusion committee, after its chair posted on LinkedIn that the committee was being discontinued.
Lendlease has sold a stake in a $500 million Melbourne build-to-rent development to Japanese real estate firm Tokyo Tatemono.
Property developer and former director of collapsed Keystone Asset Manager Paul Chiodo is appealing the rejection by liquidators of a $9 million proof of debt.
Charter Hall has acquired the Southport Park shopping centre in Queensland from billionaire John Van Lieshout for $152.5 million.
Real estate fund manager Centuria Capital has acquired the management rights to 22 agricultural properties worth $444 million, expanding its portfolio in the sector to $1.3 billion.
Energy infrastructure firm APA Group has signed an agreement with CS Energy to jointly develop a 400 megawatt gas power station in southern Queensland.
Slater & Gordon has settled a lawsuit by its former HR head alleging she was axed after expressing concerns that the firm deliberately underpaid over $300,000 in leave entitlements.
McCullough Robertson has nabbed a construction law expert from Mills Oakley to join the firm’s partnership.
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