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Sydney developer on hook for $11.2M over role in Plutus blackmail scheme
Tax 2024-08-28 11:38 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A property developer has been ordered to pay $11.2 million to the liquidators of Plutus Payroll after a judge found he helped an employee of the defunct payroll services company “wash” money he blackmailed from the company’s directors.

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HWL Ebsworth, ex-partner file competing appeals over expulsion finding
Appeals 2024-07-10 4:01 pm By Cindy Cameronne

HWL Ebsworth and a former capital partner have both appealed a ruling that found the partner was invalidly expelled in 2020 but that his partnership had been dissolved from the day he sued his former firm. 

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Ex-HWL Ebsworth lawyer loses fight over timing of partnership dissolution
Business of Law 2024-05-13 2:24 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A former capital partner at HWL Ebsworth has lost his argument that he remained in the firm’s partnership until last month, after a judge found he was invalidly expelled in 2020. 

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HWL Ebsworth says ousted lawyer can’t reap benefits of partnership 4 years after expulsion
Business of Law 2024-05-06 2:23 pm By Cindy Cameronne

HWL Ebsworth has argued a former capital partner who was found to have been invalidly expelled in 2020 cannot claim a share of the law firm’s profits from then to now, saying he could not reap the benefits of partnership without the “burdens”.

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Former HWL Ebsworth partner invalidly expelled ahead of planned IPO, court rules
Business of Law 2024-04-08 2:33 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has ruled that HWL Ebsworth invalidly expelled a former capital partner, finding that the expulsion, which prevented him from participating in a planned float of the firm on the ASX, breached the partnership deed. 

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At Juan Martinez’s HWL Ebsworth, it was OK to ‘hire and fire at will’, court told
Business of Law 2024-03-27 10:48 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A former HWL Ebsworth capital partner alleging he was unlawfully expelled and excluded from a planned float on the ASX has argued HWLE’s late managing partner, Juan Martinez, thought the firm could “hire and fire at will” without giving proper reasons.

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HWL Ebsworth’s claim of exhausted discovery in partner spat ‘puzzling’, judge says
Business of Law 2023-06-29 10:47 pm By Gareth Baker

A judge has criticised HWL Ebsworth’s discovery efforts and ordered the law firm to try again in the firm’s dispute with a former partner claiming the company cut him out of a proposed ASX float in 2020. 

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HWL Ebsworth partner excluded from IPO wants firm head’s emails in $4.4M suit
Business of Law 2023-05-25 11:10 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A former capital partner has called on HWL Ebsworth to produce communications between managing partner Juan Martinez and other members of the management team that allegedly preceded a decision to shut him out of the law firm’s plans to float on the ASX. 

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Judge clarifies rights of responsible entities to recoup MIS costs
Financial Services 2022-03-23 4:22 pm By Miklos Bolza

A Federal Court judgment has laid out when a responsible entity of a managed investment scheme will be indemnified for its operating costs and when it can recoup legal costs in defending lawsuits brought over trust property.

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HWL Ebsworth’s boss can’t slug former partner with costs in case over failed IPO
Business of Law 2022-02-21 10:06 pm By Christine Caulfield

Managing partner of HWL Ebsworth Juan Martinez has lost his bid for an order for costs against a former capital partner in a $4.4 million suit after the partner unsuccessfully sought to have the law firm boss named as representative defendant.

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