Two Australian companies who held all the shares in Mirabela Mineração do Brasil’s main asset, the Santa Rita Mine, have successfully argued that a contract variation and their subsequent termination of the sale contract was lawful, in spite of their Brazilian counterparts’ late signature.
Lendlease can’t bring new claims in an unsuccessful fight over Campbelltown plots worth $120 million, with a judge finding it was not appropriate to allow the amendments “at this very late stage”.
A judge has ordered a Sydney law firm to pay $427,000 to a former client after finding it drafted a defective notice in a land sale and defended proceedings that came about because of its own negligence.
The liquidators of a company created to invest in a $2.2 million Adelaide property have asked the High Court to reinstate a judgment that found a mortgage that sent the company into liquidation was an unreasonable director-related transaction and could be voided.
Cladding maker 3A Composites has lost its bid to set aside a cross-claim in a suit against the builder of the Tempo residential towers in Botany Bay over allegedly flammable aluminium composite panels.
In a court fight between engineering firm Clough and its former joint venture partner Elecnor, a judge has questioned Elecnor’s “extremely inconvenient” bid to send Clough’s $54 million cross-claim to arbitration in Singapore.
Developer Thousand Hills Property has won an appeal in its fight with LBA Capital over a scuttled property deal for NDIS housing, with an appeals court accepting that LBA repudiated the deal in an email sent by its former director.
CSR Building Products has won a legal challenge over a development application at its 52-hectare industrial estate in western Sydney, which has generated sale proceeds of over $408 million to date.
The administrators of a Northern Territory iron ore company have won extra time to hold a second creditors meeting in hopes of securing a deed of company arrangement, despite protests from creditor Aurizon.
Global asset manager IFM Investors has hired a leading silk in a court battle with real estate and infrastructure manager Dexus, to assert its sizeable interest in the company that operates Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport.