News

• New CEO to take the reins at IP specialist firm

  Chief financial officer steps in as the firm’s longtime CEO prepares to move on read more

• NRF acts as Australian company sells major SA, NSW wind projects

  The sale also includes a stake in another company, which owns wind and solar projects in Western Australia read more

• Big firms bend over backwards to be flexible

  Two BigLaws are the latest to join the ranks of firms with flexible work programs read more

• Vodafone calls on Slaughter and May for US$23bn Idea merger

  The deal would create India’s largest communications business by revenue read more

• Australia sees rebound of private M&A mega deals

  International firm hires corporate team in Asia … Online justice must not lead to lower quality says Bar Council… read more

• Aussie forms pioneering global law network

  The new network is the first and only one of its kind read more

• US giant advises on US$14bn BHP Billiton project

  The deep-water Trion Block is expected to be one of the largest fields discovered in the Gulf of Mexico in the last decade read more

• Ashurst advises as Bain Capital sells stake in mining services company

  The American private equity on-sold its stake that it recently bought in an Australian company read more

• PwC hires half of ‘the world’s best’ tax team

  GE famously paid no taxes on billions in profit in 2010. Now PwC has snagged hundreds of members of the team that made that possible read more

• Fear not the robot lawyer

  There’s no need to go full “Blade Runner” just yet; there are certain human qualities computers will never replicate read more