The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation have signed an agreement under which the agencies will work more closely to target cartels and other anti-competitive behaviour.
Wealth manager IOOF has dismissed a shareholder class action lawsuit related to allegations of misconduct aired at the Banking Royal Commission, calling it “speculative and unfounded”.
Australia’s largest intellectual property services firm IPH will maintain its dominance after winning a takeover battle for Xenith IP, a deal that will create a formidable IP services giant with over 1,000 employees across Asia Pacific.
A judge has denied Mylan’s bid to temporarily block Sun Pharma and Cipla from making generic versions of anti-cholesterol drug Lipidil while it appeals a ruling invalidating several claims of its patents for the drug, citing the “difficulty, complexity and uncertainty” in assessing compensation under an undertaking as to damages in pharmaceutical patent proceedings.
E-retail giant Catch Group has settled a lawsuit against Kogan for alleging violating its “catch” trade marks and the consumer law through sponsored links on Google driven by phrases using the word “catch”.
IP services company QANTM has signaled the end to a bidding war to acquire rival Xenith IP, saying it will not match the terms of the latest offer lodged by fellow IP services provider IPH that would see it acquire Xenith outright.
Insurance Australia Limited is facing a class action alleging it engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct by pushing worthless add-on insurance onto individuals purchasing motor vehicles through authorised dealers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has brought criminal cartel charges against a money transfer business and five individuals for allegedly fixing the foreign exchange rate on millions of dollars transferred between Australia and Vietnam between 2011 and 2016.
Months after submitting its final report on the country’s class action regime, the Australian Law Reform Commission has been tasked with undertaking a “comprehensive” review of the effectiveness of the country’s corporate crime laws, including whether the criminal code should be altered to make senior executives liable for company misconduct.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has offered $9.3 million since 2014 to customers that suffered loss when advisers in two of its financial planning units put their money into high-risk investments without their permission.