Two former executives of investment fund Benjamin Hornigold Limited have been charged with offences related to $3.8 million in payments.
Insurance specialist firm Wotton + Kearney has hired a lawyer from King & Wood Mallesons with class action expertise to bolster its litigation defence offering.
Television presenter Lisa Wilkinson has filed her defence to a defamation suit by accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann, arguing the claim that he raped fellow Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019 is substantially true.
K&L Gates has snagged a partner from Arnold Bloch Leibler to bolster the real estate practice in its fast-growing Sydney office.
A class action accusing Virgin Australia of failing to disclose its true financial position in a 2019 prospectus for a $324 million capital raising is seeking to join a slew of the airline’s insurers to the case.
Personal lender ClearLoans and its parent company have been hit with $6 million in penalties for violating consumer credit protections laws, including by failing to respond to financial hardship notices from debtors during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A third individual has been hit with criminal charges in relation to collapsed investment management fund Courtenay House, which ASIC alleges was run as a $180 million Ponzi scheme.
Herbert Smith Freehills has launched an international arbitration hub in Melbourne to service the firm’s clients along the Asia-Australia corridor.
A judge has declined to stay a class action against BPS Financial, the issuer of cryptocurrency Qoin, in light of similar ASIC proceedings.
Petrol giant Ampol has reached a $157 million agreement with the Australian Taxation Office to resolve a long-running dispute over transfer pricing of goods between its Singaporean hub and Australian unit.