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Baker McKenzie has appointed a new special counsel to join the law firm's private equity practice group in its Sydney office.
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The trustee for shareholders that want to retain their Dexus-managed stake in Australia Pacific Airports Corporation can't be separately represented from the selling group, a judge has ruled in a case that pits APAC's investors against each other.
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Engineering firm GHD Australia is the latest company to be pulled into a class action over a bus crash in NSW's Hunter Valley that killed 10 passengers, a court has heard.
Super fund Cbus has made admissions in the corporate regulator's case over long delays in the processing of $20 million in death and disability claims, with the action to progress directly to penalty.
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Warning of the propensity for major events procurement to attract cartel conduct, the competition regulator is encouraging the Queensland government to share data on bids for Brisbane Olympics projects.
A judge did not need to recuse himself from deciding the penalty in ASIC's case against Sunshine Loans because his earlier adverse credit findings — far from giving rise to bias concerns — were relevant to the task, the regulator has told the High Court.
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For a third time, real estate investment manager Lendlease has avoided a vote on the future of its oversight of a $10 billion property fund, with a proposed meeting Wednesday of the fund's retail investors reportedly adjourned for want of quorum.
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Ashurst-represented Snowy Hydro has reached a landmark 15-year virtual tolling agreement with Akaysha Energy for Victoria's Elaine Battery Energy Storage System, the first battery toll pact for the energy company.
The competition regulator has reached a data-sharing agreement with NSW to combat bid rigging on state contracts worth a total of $42 billion annually, in a partnership that will deploy AI to find potential cartel culprits.
Telstra has reached an agreement with the consumer regulator after a court found the telco misled thousands of broadband customers about the speed of its budget internet provider, Belong.