Companies

Otsuka Pharmaceuticals has asked the High Court to overturn a decision revoking its Abilify patent extension, saying the ruling, which limited the extension-of term scheme to active substances only, will “lead to a groundswell of court proceedings”.

Class action settlements hit major milestones last year, with the year’s largest settlements totalling $1.6 billion and one case resolving for a historic $548.5 million.

BHP and its in-house labour hire subsidiary have lost their bid to challenge same job, same pay orders by the Fair Work Commission workers at mines in central Queensland. 

A judge has ordered ANZ to pay $250 million in penalties in four cases by ASIC – $10 million more than the bank had agreed to pay – saying ANZ had "substantially deceived” the government by overstating bond trading volumes.

Superannuation fund Australian Retirement Trust has acquired a 48.5 per cent interest in Mirvac's $1.7 billion build-to-rent fund.

An investigation commissioned by Optus into its fatal Triple Zero outage in September has found "at least 10 mistakes" made by the telco's personnel and contractor Nokia, which was upgrading the network at the time.

The publisher of The Australian has hit back at a defamation case by a former JLL executive, saying it was substantially true that he fondled a drunk junior female colleague's breast at a strip club. 

Orders proposed by Apple after a judge’s finding that the digital giant and rival Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct would “rob the court’s findings of their detail, their efficacy and their bite”, Epic Games has said.

Logistics giant Qube has shed its interest in a 202-hectare property at Beveridge in Melbourne's north to Hong Kong-based asset manager C Capital for $111 million.

Energy company AusNet has appointed infrastructure companies Acciona and Genus to build Victoria's 190km Western Renewables Link.