Companies

A court has appointed provisional liquidators to Melbourne developer Lion Property Group after hearing that $120 million of investor money was not properly accounted for.

Dentons has poached an employment law expert and her team of three from Deloitte Legal to grow its Melbourne office.

Hall & Wilcox has brought proceedings against accounting firm Pitcher Partners, alleging it breached its duty of care by providing negligent advice on late superannuation payments. 

A cyber criminal has targeted a Qantas call centre that holds the records of six million customers, in an attack exposing a "significant" amount of data.

Real estate fund manager Dexus has sued wealth management firm AMP following a decision forcing it to sell its half of the $1.7 billion Macquarie Shopping Centre.

Lendlease's $500 million residential project in Sydney's eastern suburbs known as One Darling Point has secured development approval from the NSW government in just five months.

One of two law firms running competing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts has bowed out, leaving its rival to pursue the cases for consumers.

Former franchisees involved in a class action against RAMS are seeking to intervene in ASIC civil penalty proceedings against the defunct Westpac subsidiary.

A judge has approved a bid to discontinue a class action against Apple over updates that allegedly “throttled” the performance of iPhones, after the lawyers running the case failed to secure litigation funding.

A lawyer acting for two senior Super Retail Group employees presented a PowerPoint to solicitors for the company on the damage to its share price if his clients' allegations went public, court filings say.