The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is weighing court enforceable undertakings proposed by Finnish cargo handling companies Cargotec and Konecranes to alleviate concerns their merger would be anticompetitive.
Johnson Winter & Slattery has snagged two tax bigwigs from Deloitte and KPMG Law to meet growing client demand for tax advice from law firms.
Australia’s largest law firm MinterEllison has announced the election of leading mergers and acquisitions and government practice lawyer Andrew Rentoul to the position of chairman.
A second class action investigation against regenerative medicine company Mesoblast is underway, this one looking at claim it misled shareholders about the potential application of a developmental stem cell product to treat terminally-ill children.
PepsiCo has launched proceedings disputing claims by the Australian Taxation Office that amounts paid by Schweppes for local bottling and distribution services were royalties and had to be taxed accordingly.
The brother of Liberal Senator and former resources minister Matt Canavan can investigate potential claims against Glencore in his long running legal spat over the Rolleston coal mine, after a court greenlit his bid for the appointment of special purpose liquidators.
Scenic Tours is facing a potential second class action over a series of European cruises that went ahead in 2018 despite a record-breaking drought that saw river levels drop so low they became impassable.
A court has shut down action by the CFMEU on behalf of coal miners who were rostered to work Christmas Day and Boxing Day at the Daunia Mine in central Queensland in 2019.
Philanthropist and Wotif founder Graeme Wood will have to pay more than $15 million after the Victoria Supreme Court found one of his companies had breached an agreement to act as guarantor for the $73 million sale of a Queensland aquaculture business.
Hall & Wilcox has lured a senior finance, corporate and regulatory lawyer from the Reserve Bank of Australia, in what is being described as a major coup for the practice.
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