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CIMIC settles shareholder class action over corruption disclosures
Engineering services company CIMIC has agreed to settle a long-running shareholder class action launched in the wake of media reports of an alleged $42 million bribe paid by the firm to win a lucrative oil contract.
CIMIC had no chance of winning stay of competing class action, judge says
A judge has ordered engineering services firm CIMIC Group to pay the costs of a 2017 attempt to stay a competing class action against it, saying the bid was one the company "could never have successfully prosecuted".
Judge strikes out CIMIC class action claims pleaded in ‘factual vacuum’
Engineering services company CIMIC has won a challenge to the pleadings in a shareholder class action against it, with the Federal Court striking out deficient paragraphs but giving the class a chance to replead.
CIMIC attacks ‘forests of contingencies’ in class action pleadings
Engineering services firm CIMIC Group has attacked the pleadings in a shareholder class action against it, saying needlessly convoluted paragraphs containing a "numerically vast number of contingencies" should be struck out.
Class to fight CIMIC’s ‘opportunistic’ bid to strike out pleadings
A shareholder class action against CIMIC Group will fight a strike out application it has slammed as an "opportunistic" late-stage move by the global engineering firm made only because the trial was previously vacated.
$27M Fitch class action settlement approved after scolding by judge
Group members in the Fitch Ratings class action have recovered almost 95 per cent of their losses in a $27 million settlement, which was narrowly approved after a judge scolded the parties for a lack of clarity around the mediation and opt-out process.
“I’d be happy to mediate it myself”: Judge cheers talks in Fitch class action
Parties in an ongoing four-and-a-half year long investor class action against Fitch Ratings have agreed to a second round of mediation after a prior attempt was adjourned without success.
CIMIC faces bid for indemnity costs after last-minute subpoenas derailed class action trial
The lead applicant in a shareholder class action against global engineering firm CIMIC Group has made a bid for indemnity costs, after a last-minute subpoena of three former executives led to the trial being vacated.
Deep Investments can’t take another shot at case, Full Court says
The Full Court has denied a bid by Deep Investments to vary orders dismissing its case against a solicitor and six others over $10 million in alleged share trading losses, saying this would amount to allowing the investment adviser to bring a different claim.
CIMIC slugged with costs after class action trial vacated
Global engineering firm CIMIC Group has been hit with costs after a last-minute subpoena of three new potential witnesses caused the three-week trial that was due to commence later this month to be vacated.