A court has found that United Petroleum is not bound by the terms of a signed lease offer sent to a neighbouring Gold Coast pharmacy operator, ruling the company’s property consultant had no authority to negotiate or enter into a new lease on its behalf.
Ashurst has advised renewable energy company AMPYR Australia on a novel equity partnership and participation model with the Aboriginal community for a battery energy storage system in NSW’s Central Western Slops region.
Brookfield has scooped up a 19.9 per cent stake in real estate investment manager Cromwell Property Group.
Joining CBRE Investment Management in fast-tracking developer Aliro Group’s flagship industrial vehicle, Canadian super fund PSP Investments has committed up to $800 million for investment.
Developer Kaloriziko has appealed a ruling which rejected its claim that a property deal involving related parties extinguished a $2.12 million liability to a builder on the ‘Sky Gardens’ residential development in Ryde, NSW.
Abacus Storage Kings will open its books for a consortium of Ki Corporation and New York Stock Exchange-listed Public Storage, which lobbed a $2.2 billion takeover offer last week.
A judge has approved an $87 million settlement in a class action against Hino Motors, but says he needs to hear from a contradictor before greenlighting a law firm’s 25 per cent contingency fee.
A barrister who won a defamation case against Nine over an Instagram-famous cavoodle has lost her bid to appeal a ruling in a fight with her former solicitors over fees.
A judge has tossed an application for a contempt hearing against in-house lawyers, editors and journalists at Nine who allegedly breached suppression orders in a former ABC radio host’s unfair dismissal case.
A law firm has filed a representative complaint with the OAIC on behalf of six million Qantas customers affected by the company’s recent data breach.
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