Jones Day has lured a real estate expert from Clayton Utz to join its Brisbane office as a partner.
The University of Newcastle has been hit with a class action alleging students were misled into studying an engineering degree that lacked professional accreditation and left them unable to apply for employment.
Centuria Capital Group has divested an office block in Sydney’s southern suburbs for $116 million after holding it for nine years.
Thomson Geer has snagged two workplace relations partners and their 15-person team from Holding Redlich for its Brisbane office.
ASX-listed Investment manager Regal Partners has acquired 50 per cent of real estate investment platform Ark Capital Partners, as well as a five-star luxury hotel in Adelaide for $75 million.
Fawkner Property Group has acquired a shopping centre in Far North Queensland for $34 million, its third recent shopping centre purchase in the region.
A judge has OK’d a settlement in a class action against Treasury Wine Estates, along with $27 million in fees charged by Maurice Blackburn and Slater & Gordon, after initially questioning the difference between the firms’ rates.
A real estate developer based in the Victorian town slated as the location for a waste-to-energy plant has lost its challenge to the proposed project.
An Acciona unit has sued Dual Australia, claiming the insurer is on the hook for $3 million in remediation for alleged design defects by a subcontractor on a Fulton Hogan quarry in Victoria.
Rio Tinto and Gina Rinehart-owned Hancock Prospecting will invest $2.47 billion to develop a Western Australian iron ore project as part of the Hope Downs joint venture.