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Viterra to pay $168.9M for misleading Cargill during Joe White sale
Agriculture 2022-02-17 2:05 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

Grain producer Viterra will be ordered to pay Cargill Australia $168.9 million after a judge found the Glencore-owned company  misrepresented the performance capabilities of malt producer Joe White when it sold the company for $420 million in 2013.

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Ill-fated cartel case shows ACCC should stay out of financial markets, ex-Deutsche Bank CEO says
ACCC 2022-02-11 7:23 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

The CDPP’s decision to drop all criminal cartel charges against two banks and four individuals in a “test case” over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement shows the ACCC “lacks expertise and objectivity” on the financial markets and should leave them to ASIC to regulate, according to one of the former accused.

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Tireless defence by lawyers felled criminal cartel case against banks
Allens 2022-02-11 11:20 am By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

From a lengthy committal hearing challenging the ACCC’s investigatory techniques to repeated attacks on the prosecution’s indictment, an indefatigable team of barristers and lawyers across eight law firms helped bring an end to the four-year long pursuit of criminal cartel charges against three banks and six individuals over a $2.8 billion ANZ share placement.

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Charges dropped in landmark criminal cartel case over $2.5B ANZ share placement
ANZ 2022-02-11 11:03 am By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

In a stunning reversal, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecution has dropped all criminal cartel charges against two investment banks and four individuals in relation to a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement, four years after the charges were brought following an allegedly questionable investigation by the ACCC.

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Bristol-Myers Squibb to open up cancer treatment program to settle Merck Sharpe & Dohme lawsuit
Clayton Utz 2022-02-09 7:01 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to open up its subsidised treatment program for stage IV melanoma patients to individuals who have been treated with drugs made by its competitors to settle a misuse of market power lawsuit brought by rival Merck Sharpe & Dohme.

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IOOF class action to get ASIC files on abandoned insider trading probe
ASIC 2022-02-08 4:00 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

The corporate watchdog has been subpoenaed for its investigation files in the latest development in a protracted discovery fight in a shareholder class action over alleged misconduct by wealth manager IOOF.

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Full Court says Facebook can be sued in Australia over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Appeals 2022-02-07 11:30 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

The Full Federal Court has held Facebook can be sued in Australia for allegedly disclosing the personal data of over 300,000 users to political research firm Cambridge Analytica.

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In class action defence, Tyro says businesses should have accepted cash during EFTPOS outage
Bannister Law 2022-02-01 9:58 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

Fintech Tyro has hit back at a class action brought on behalf of retailers who were unable to process payments because of a days-long terminal outage, arguing they should have accepted cash while their EFTPOS machines were down.

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Court finds Viterra engaged in deceit during $420M Joe White sale
Allan Myers 2022-01-28 10:58 am By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

Food giant Cargill Australia has won its lawsuit against Glencore-owned Viterra alleging it misrepresented the performance capabilities of malt producer Joe White when it sold the company for $420 million in 2013.

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Telstra liable for ‘catastrophic’ crashes in ProLearn’s faulty telemarketing system
Andrew Kirby 2022-01-24 1:21 pm By Bianca Hrovat Sydney

Telstra is partially liable for a $2.6 million telecommunications bungle that “caused several catastrophic crashes” and slashed the calling capacity of a Melbourne-based telemarketing business by more than 60 per cent.

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