Law Firms

Beauty brand McPherson's and its former boss are challenging the regulator's win in a case over disclosures related to sales forecasts for the company's Dr LeWinn's skincare range.

Former Keystone Asset Management director Paul Chiodo has agreed not to raise money for his property fund Royce Capital after ASIC alleged the fund was secretly being used to cover his legal fees in the regulator’s enforcement action.

Qube has accused Martinus Rail of behaving like a “delinquent debtor” as it seeks to restrain the logistics company from enforcing a $26 million judgment in a dispute over Sydney’s $4 billion Moorebank Intermodal Terminal.

A judge has shot down Sydney Water's bid for discovery from a Frasers Property-Altis Real Estate joint venture, in a dispute over $48 million in infrastructure contribution charges for a $1 billion industrial development in Western Sydney.

An environmental group that plans to appeal its failed challenge to a Brunswick Heads development has launched a bid to stop slashing works at the site.

Macpherson Kelley has hired an experienced property lawyer as a principal in its Sydney property team.

The grand-niece of billiards champion Walter Lindrum has won more time to file submissions in her dispute against a Time & Place subsidiary over its redevelopment of the historic Hotel Lindrum into a 27-storey commercial tower.

Responding to growing US investment in local markets, Johnson Winter Slattery will become the first Australian firm to open a US office advising on Australian law. 

The applicant in a failed class action against former NAB super fund trustee NULIS Nominees over $165 million in conflicted remuneration has won High Court leave to challenge the dismissal of his case.

A Full Federal Court is set to hear BHP's challenge to the employment law underpinning a union's class action, with the energy giant to argue that the Fair Work Act provision governing public holidays is not capable of breach.