Law Firms

Keybridge Capital has filed a lawsuit against E&P Investments seeking $1.7 million in compensation over the allegedly unfair conversion of almost 40,000 URFPA units held in E&P’s New York real estate investment fund as part of a share buyback program. 

Thomson Geer has appointed returning lawyer Aimee Riley as its newest tax partner, luring her back from professional services giant EY.

The Herald Sun has apologised to Victorian deputy Liberal leader Sam Groth and his wife, Brittany, over articles at the centre of a privacy and defamation lawsuit brought by the pair.

Underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths want to expand their claims to cover a longer time period, which would leave the supermarket giants with even bigger remediation bills than the $780 million estimated in the wake of a finding that underpayments cannot be set off.

The NSW government is fighting a bid to add a direct discrimination claim by the lead applicant in a class action alleging racial discrimination over the placement of children in state care. 

A court has rejected a bid to expand a lawsuit over a Chinese investor's $27.5 million contract to purchase a building at 99 Queen Street in Melbourne to join the matriarch of the "very wealthy" family.

Ashurst has announced plans to merge with US law firm Perkins Coie, creating a powerhouse firm with 3,000 lawyers across 23 countries with ambitions to lead the way on AI.

The Geelong Football Club has launched a bid to summarily dismiss or strike out claims alleging breaches of occupational health and safety regulations in a concussion class action against the AFL.

Spanish multinational electrical giant Iberdrola has been selected to design and operate the Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector West transmission project, part of the state's pipeline of new energy infrastructure projects.

University of Sydney staff members who claim a professor unlawfully “named and shamed” them as pro-Israel have lost their bid to continue their racial discrimination case as a class action, while the university has lost a summary dismissal bid in a similar case.