Investment house Washington H. Soul Pattinson has reached a merger agreement with building products and property company Brickworks to create a $14 billion powerhouse.
Australia’s financial crimes agency has sounded the alarm on organised crime risks at two casinos in Far North Queensland and the Northern Territory.
A judge has signed off on a confidential settlement in a class action over off-the-plan homes in a proposed north-west Sydney development, including a clause that prevents group members from making any public statements about the suit or disparaging the parties.
Uranium miner Paladin Energy is facing a second shareholder class action over alleged misleading disclosures to the market about expected production at its flagship uranium mine in Namibia.
The competition watchdog confirmed Thursday it was investigating real estate listings company REA Group.
The Victorian government has given the go-ahead to Viva Energy’s plans to construct a liquefied natural gas terminal in Geelong.
Asset manager HMC Capital, which owns 11 private hospitals operated by embattled Healthscope, has reached a rent deferral deal with receivers and says other operators have expressed interest in taking up tenancy.
Two Australian companies who held all the shares in Mirabela Mineração do Brasil’s main asset, the Santa Rita Mine, have successfully argued that a contract variation and their subsequent termination of the sale contract was lawful, in spite of their Brazilian counterparts’ late signature.
The Legal Practice Board in Western Australia has confirmed it was the victim of a data breach, with the bank details of the board and a small number of practitioners said to have been accessed.
Toyota has hit back at claims against its newly joined Japanese parent company in a class action over alleged emission cheat devices, saying the bulk of the claims are statute barred.