Law Firms

Big Six firm Allens has advised alternative investment firm Stonepeak in a $1 billion investment in Queensland retirement village developer Aura.

Chambers Russell has snagged one of Shine's class action heads to establish a new practice area for the commercial law firm.

A judge has refused an activist group’s bid for an injunction against the Hills Shire Council over its plans to build a rugby sports field on Fred Caterson Reserve.

NAB super fund trustee NULIS Nominees had no power to continue charging members for $165 million in fees to pay adviser commission after conflicted remuneration was banned in 2016, an appeals court has heard.

A judge has awarded private equity firm CPE Capital, formerly CHAMP, $96 million in a dispute over a profit sharing agreement that was part of a deal to provide $150 million in vendor finance to FX Group Holdings for shares in trading platform Pepperstone.

Human rights and press freedom activists want to intervene in a High Court case over copyright ownership in abattoir footage obtained by trespass, saying the broader public interest might be affected by the case.

Mineral Resources has won a bid for more documents in its fight with the Pilbara Ports Authority over the validity of a channel charge, which it argues was imposed to cover amounts owed to Chevron for construction costs. 

Mineral Resources has won a bid for more documents in its fight with the Pilbara Ports Authority over the validity of a channel charge. 

Lander & Rogers has hired a disputes lawyer from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer to join its Brisbane-based commercial disputes practice as a partner. 

The Victorian planning minister has told the High Court that IGA can't bring a lawsuit over a local council amendment allowing up to four supermarkets in the town of Shepparton, saying the case does raise a jurisdictional error.