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Logistics company GetSwift and its directors are appealing a win for ASIC in the regulator's case that alleged they breached their continuous disclosure obligations and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct in the release of 22 ASX announcements.
A group of banks that failed to prove steel giant Arrium falsified representations on loan drawdown notices ahead of its $2.8 billion collapse have been ordered to pay indemnity costs after a court found they rejected $10 million settlement offers three days into the trial.
Logistics company GetSwift says it is considering an appeal of an 859-page judgment which lambasted the company and its directors' "public relations-driven approach" to announcements on the Australian Stock Exchange.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has scored a victory in its long-running case against GetSwift, with the Federal Court finding the company and its directors breached the Corporations Act and ASIC Act through their "public relations-driven approach" to announcements on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Herbert Smith Freehills this week escaped a cross-claim that its advice made it liable for the alleged losses of Arrium's lenders, but the judge who tossed the claim along with the banks' cases expressed doubts about one of the law firm's key arguments, a warning to other firms caught up in litigation as so-called concurrent wrongdoers.
A judge has dismissed two cases brought by the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and other lenders against directors of the failed steel giant Arrium, saying he was not satisfied the directors' representations on loan drawdown notices were false or that the company was insolvent when it went into voluntary administration in April 2016.
A settlement reached in a lawsuit by the liquidators of collapsed steel giant Arrium against 10 former company directors accused of insolvent trading has been approved by a judge, who noted that while the settlement amount was "substantial", the deal involved a "substantial compromise".
Lawyerly is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural Litigation Rising Stars competition, which honours 30 lawyers under the age of 40 for their work in high-stakes litigation.
A mid-trial settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by the liquidators of collapsed steel giant Arrium against 10 former company directors and officers for allegedly engaging in insolvent trading.
Law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has attacked a lawsuit brought by a group of lenders against collapsed steel giant Arrium, rejecting claims that $430 million in loans was borrowed under misleading or deceptive representations.