Grain producer Viterra has been ordered to pay Cargill Australia $124 million in pre-judgment interest on top of the $168.9 million it was ordered to pay after a judge found it misrepresented the performance capabilities of Joe White during the $420 million sale of the malt producer.
Network Ten has denied claims that high profile political reporter Peter van Onselen harassed, ignored and humiliated journalist Tegan George.
The ATO has secured freezing orders on $220 million in capital gains tax arising from the $19 billion private equity sale by China’s State Grid of its substantial shareholding in energy infrastructure giant AusNet.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is considering whether new laws are needed to rein in Google, Apple and Facebook, including rules to curb self-preferencing conduct and strengthen the merger review framework.
Law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has strengthened its financial services practice by luring two seasoned partners from Minter Ellison.
Judgments shooting down a class closure order and nixing notice of a possible class closure order were “plainly wrong” and “infected” by faulty reasoning, the Full Federal Court has heard.
An appeal in a class action over Ford’s alleged defective Powershift transmission could blow out by a week, with the applicant filing a cross appeal in a case that comes down to three provisions of the Australian Consumer law given little or no attention by the Full Court.
The self-declared āwolf traderā of the Gold Coast, Tyson Scholz, will not have to provide a concise statement in response to the Australian Securities and Investments Commissionās case accusing him of providing unlicensed financial services, a judge has ruled.
Bristol-Myers Squibb unit Celgene has dropped a lawsuit accusing Indian generics company Dr Reddy’s Laboraties of threatening to infringe its patent for Revlimid with the planned launch of a generic version of the blockbuster cancer drug in Australia.
A Credit Suisse supply chain fund that was left heavily exposed with the collapse of Greensill Capital alleges Insurance Australia Group owes $43 million under a policy indemnifying it for outstanding debt owed by the failed financing firm.