Samsung Bioepis Australia has sued fellow biotechnology company Fresenius Kabi over a biosimilar of top selling immunosuppressant drug Humira, saying the invention ‘does not achieve the promise’ of a better formulation using fewer ingredients.
A judge has allowed four ex-Linchpin directors facing possible fines by ASIC to put off filing evidence or amended defences in an investor class action after they claimed it would put them at risk of penalty in the corporate regulator’s proceedings.
Canada-based software company Dye & Durham has offered to divest its Australian business to win the ACCC’s blessing for its proposed $2.9 billion acquisition of technology services provider Link Group.
Law firm Johnson Winter & Slattery is expanding its footprint with the opening of a Canberra office spearheaded by two new partners lured from MinterEllison and leading M&A partner Marcus Clark.
A judge has rejected a bid by chain logistics company Brambles to allow two of its US-based witnesses to appear remotely at an upcoming trial in a shareholder class action, saying the executives should make the trip or give no evidence.
A Melbourne-based clerking service has denied that it fired a clerk because she asked to work from home to manage her disability and was absent from work due to COVID-19 complications.
Officials at the Mercedes-Benz Australia head office referred to car dealers as “baby piglets” in internal communications and threatened and bullied the retailers, a trial court has been told in a $650 million lawsuit over the car maker’s decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.
A former managing director of adtech company Amobee can proceed with a complaint of disability discrimination by association, after he was fired for failing to disclose a relationship with an employee who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after a sexual assault by a senior executive.
A judge has given a “judicial harrumph” to Sydney developer FKP Commercial Developments and Irish insurer Zurich Insurance in a dispute over coverage for an apartment defects suit, saying it was not for the court to “trawl” through an insurance policy to work out its meaning.
Telstra has agreed to deregister 162 radiocommunications sites after the ACCC expressed concerns the acquisition could stymie competition by hampering the rollout of Optus’ 5G network.
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