Industries

Ashurst has nabbed a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright to join its global projects and energy transition team.

A new class action targeting Grill'd alleges the burger chain wrongly denied thousands of workers the rest breaks they were entitled to under enterprise bargaining agreements.

German drug maker Merck KGaA is fighting US drug company Merck Sharp & Dohme over the alleged use of the ‘Merck’ mark in Australia, five years after their intellectual property spat was settled. 

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.

AUSTRAC has launched an investigation into Bendigo and Adelaide Bank's compliance with anti-money laundering laws, as APRA directs the bank to hold a capital add-on of $50 million.

Super trustee Netwealth has agreed to return over $100 million to members who invested their retirement savings in the First Guardian Master Fund, in the latest action by the corporate regulator over the failed fund.

A group of insurers can't join Northwest Rail Link joint venture partners MTR and UGL to a suit by CPB Contractors and John Holland over a $100 million policy, with a judge saying the joint venture’s interests in the case are commercial rather than legal. 

A judge has recused herself from a case by liquidators for real estate investment firm Global Capital Property Fund against Point Bay Developments, after hearing the corporate regulator's application to wind up the fund.

The liquidators of Falcon Capital, which is suspected of having misused $450 million in investor funds, have sued a Melbourne property developer, claiming he knowingly assisted Falcon to loan millions in trust money in a “dishonest and fraudulent design”. 

The ACCC has given Coles the green light to acquire two leasehold interests to launch new supermarkets in Melbourne's rapidly developing west after the supermarket giant agreed to divest its ownership and interest in its Kororoit Town Centre site.