A Qube unit and a developer have lost their $20 million claim alleging the Department of Defence failed to properly address asbestos contamination on leased land which was redeveloped into a terminal facility in Moorebank.
Clayton Utz has lured a top energy and infrastructure lawyer from Gilbert + Tobin to lead its energy practice. Alexander Danne will join the Clayton Utz partnership in July and will be based at the firm’s Melbourne office. Over his more than two decade-long career, Danne has amassed extensive experience, advising major regional and international…
A NSW Supreme Court judge has stayed civil proceedings relating to asbestos-contaminated mulch found in parks across Sydney amid ongoing criminal proceedings.
AkzoNobel has had some success in its late bid to have Japanese oil company INPEX produce documents filed in related proceedings against its insurers in their dispute over allegedly defective coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project.
Johnson Winter Slattery has hired a new partner for the firm’s restructuring and insolvency team.
A $59 million settlement has been reached in a long-running class action accusing five major banks of foreign exchange rate-rigging.
Coombes Property Group has been awarded $200 million in compensation for Sydney Metro’s compulsory acquisition of its CBD property, despite contending it was entitled to $430 million.
A specialist private equity lawyer with over 20 years of experience has joined King & Wood Mallesons private capital team as a partner.
A business lender that issued personal loans is on the hook for unlicensed credit activity, but ASIC’s action against the director has failed, with a judge finding the regulator was “entirely indifferent” to the circumstances of the case.
WiseTech Global’s embattled founder Richard White and his wife, Zena Nasser, have resolved a lawsuit by a former employee of White’s private investment company, Realwise Management.