Industries

Allens has bolstered its real estate team with the recruitment of a long-time Clayton Utz partner to join its Sydney office.

Advised by Arnold Bloch Leibler, fund manager Merricks Capital has sold the $155M Melbourne Place Hotel after it opened in the Paris end of the CBD in December.

Real estate lawyer Vicki Aron has joined Clayton Utz's Sydney office as a partner after seven years at Ashurst.

The liquidators for landbanking company Aviation 3030 can recover half of a $3.4 million landholder duty from a former director, after a judge found they reaped benefits from indirect ownership in land sold for $135 million in 2018. 

Residents of a property near the historic Healesville Railway Line have failed in their bid to halt works proceeding on weekends and out of hours, with a judge calling their complaints “oversensitive”.

Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has been awarded new construction and maintenance contracts worth $150 million at a Rio Tinto iron ore mine in the Pilbara region. 

Mineralogy has lost its bid for expanded discovery from CITIC in a case seeking to compel the Clive Palmer-owned tenement owner to file expansion proposals allegedly needed to maintain production at a Pilbara iron mine.

Ergon Energy is challenging a notice from the energy regulator in its probe of payments received via a Centrelink direct debit scheme, after AGL was fined $25 million for overcharging welfare recipients.

Law firm HFW has welcomed former Herbert Smith Freehills energy M&A partner Graeme Gamble to its Perth office.

The iconic St George Hotel in Belmore has settled its dispute with the local council, agreeing not to use flashing signs or digital signs that might “unreasonably dazzle” passing drivers.