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ACCC extends review of $350M ANZ, GrainCorp deal
Agriculture 2019-10-24 1:26 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has extended its review of ANZ Terminals’ proposed acquisition of a unit of global agribusiness GrainCorp, after expressed competition concerns about the $350 million tie-up in July.

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Quintis founder wins unredacted transcripts of ASIC chats with directors
Agriculture 2019-10-23 9:15 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Quintis founder Frank Wilson has won his bid for unredacted transcripts of ASIC examinations with six former directors of the failed sandalwood company.

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Legal fee fight looms in HIH Insurance shareholder actions
Ashurst 2019-10-21 9:58 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Lawyers behind four quasi representative proceedings against the liquidators of collapsed HIH Insurance have launched a bid to recoup the costs of their successful 18-year-long legal battle.

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Ashurst partner slams ruling from ‘confused’ judge in dispute with ex-judge neighbour
Ashurst 2019-10-18 9:03 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

A partner at Big Six firm Ashurst has challenged a NSW Supreme Court decision appointing liquidators to his Point Piper home in a protracted dispute with an ex-judge neighbour, saying the judge was confused and made an order which was an “affront to our system of adversarial justice”.

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ANZ says ASIC overreaching in case over ‘periodical payment’ fees
ANZ 2019-10-15 9:17 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

ANZ has rejected allegations by the financial regulator that $35 million in fees charged to customers for periodical payments between accounts was unlawful, saying the regulator’s case extended the scope of false and misleading representation claims.

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Sydney Metro loses bid for Tiffany & Co chats in dispute over flagship store
Ashurst 2019-10-15 10:52 am By Miklos Bolza Sydney

High-end jewellery retailer Tiffany & Co has won its bid to block Sydney Metro from accessing privileged documents in a dispute over the compulsory acquisition of its store in Sydney’s Martin Place for the $2.7 billion Sydney Metro rail project.

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UDP wins $25M from insurers over doomed 5 Star Foods deal
Agriculture 2019-10-10 5:27 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Hong Kong-based UDP was entitled to $25 million from its insurers after losing more than $30 million from its disastrous acquisition of dairy conglomerate 5 Star Foods, which had been secretly overcharging one of its biggest customers, food giant Lion Nathan Group.

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Judge dismisses Ashurst partner’s dispute with ex-judge neighbour as ‘bordering on irrational’
Ashurst 2019-10-03 9:05 pm By Amelia Birnie Sydney

A partner at Big Six firm Ashurst has lost his bid to stop liquidators taking control of his Point Piper home in a long-running dispute with his ex-judge neighbour, after parts of his case were dismissed as “bordering on irrational”.

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‘State of warfare’: Ashurst partner in legal deadlock with ex-judge neighbour in long-running Point Piper dispute
Ashurst 2019-09-27 8:02 pm By Amelia Birnie Sydney

A judge has urged a partner at Big Six firm Ashurst not to “keep a fight going just because you can’t let it go”, after the lawyer tried to challenge a court ruling over a long-running building dispute with his neighbour, a former Family Court judge, in the exclusive Sydney suburb of Point Piper.

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Businessman Charif Kazal gets last chance to fix ‘incomprehensible’ case against Gilbert + Tobin
Aitken Lawyers 2019-09-24 7:48 pm By Amelia Birnie Sydney

A judge has given Sydney businessman Charif Kazal a third and final opportunity to replead his “simply incomprehensible” case against Gilbert + Tobin over the law firm’s involvement in a business dispute concerning a lucrative waste facility, despite saying it took “an entire week to understand the arcane obscurities” of the pleading.

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