AMP has set aside $50 million in its financial statement for the first half of 2023 to cover potential liability in a class action won last month by financial advisers over the wealth manager’s buyer of last resort policy.
Troubled professional services firm PwC has lost two partners to law firms Corrs Chambers Westgarth and DLA Piper.
Auditor Ernst & Young has filed cross-claims against Blue Sky in a shareholder class action accusing the collapsed investment firm of misleading shareholders by misstating its assets under management.
A judge has found that a case brought by the liquidators of investment firm Linchpin Capital against auditors Grant Thornton and Moore Stephens for signing off on the compliance plan for a registered fund that allegedly misused investor money has legs.
Just days before trial, exercise bike giant Peloton Interactive has dropped its lawsuit against California fitness company Mad Dogg Athletics that sought removal of Mad Dogg’s ‘spinning’ trade mark.
A judge has rejected a bid by the administrator of a collapsed company to claw back a payment of security for costs made in earlier litigation, which he found did not give rise to a relevant security interest.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers partner who is suing the accounting firm for giving him the boot over a tax leaks scandal has won an interim injunction restraining the board of partners from forcing him to leave before his case is heard.
Ferroglobe has claimed a Queensland technology company used its confidential information in new patent applications, as the global specialty metals producer races to protect its IP before the applications are published.
A judge overseeing a class action accusing Virgin Australia of failing to disclose its true financial position in a $324 million capital raising prospectus has joined a dozen insurers to the proceeding, which he said had “regrettably languished”.
National Australia Bank says employees suing the company for years of alleged unpaid overtime have failed to prove the work asked of them was unreasonable, in response to a test case that could affect up to 10,000 staff.