Law Firms

Hall & Wilcox has welcomed three partners from Piper Alderman to grow its corporate practice.

A class action on behalf of public housing residents in the Northern Territory has lost its appeal of a judge's decision to split an upcoming trial. 

China’s largest state-run conglomerate CITIC has asked the High Court to hear its appeal in mega litigation with Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy over the $12 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia. 

The liquidators of the Tahmoor coal mine in NSW, formerly owned by Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, have lost their bid to disclaim a royalties deed in favour of former owner Glencore, with a judge finding it was not an “unprofitable contract”.

Hungry Jack's has lost a spat with the owner of a site on which it operates a restaurant on the north coast of NSW, with a judge finding the rent payable by the fast food chain must account for the value of the land and the building.

AI infrastructure company Firmus has entered into a long-term electricity supply agreement with energy trading company Gunvor to support two data centre projects in South Australia.

A class action that sought to quash a settlement reached on behalf of child abuse victims who attended NSW’s Fairbridge Farm School has been discontinued, with a court hearing the case was "uneconomic". 

Hamilton Locke has lured three partners and their teams from K&L Gates, bolstering its tax offering in response to client demand.

A judge has found that Heran Group unit York Property can't call on $6.4 million in bank guarantees after finding builder Tomkins has a strong prima facie case that a $17.5 million payment certificate issued under contract to build a 119-Gold Coast residential tower was not authorised.

A judge has allowed a 50 per cent fee uplift for counsel in an epic fight over lucrative tenements in the Pilbara region, but says the hourly fees of solicitors from the likes of Allens, Clayton Utz and Corrs were already well above market rate.