15 February 2010 | Allens, Mallesons, Freehills and Blake Dawson have all acted on a property funds management company's A$108 million acquisition of the majority of Macquarie Group Limited's core real estate management platform.
17 December 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson is advising Lend Lease Group, the fully integrated property solutions provider, on its A$192 million acquisition of Lend Lease Primelife Group.
10 December 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson and Blake Dawson are acting on the Challenger Life Company Limited on the proposed A$157 million acquisition of 100 per cent of the units in Challenger Kenedix Japan Trust.
30 November 2009 | Minter Ellison has acted as Australian counsel on Amcor’s acquisition of Rio Tinto Plc Alcan’s packaging business units.
27 November 2009 | Baker & McKenzie has advised Sims Metal Management on its newly announced $400m institutional placement. Allens Arthur Robinson advised the underwriters.
27 November 2009 | As Copenhagen looms, the future of Australia's carbon trade scheme was thrown into confusion yesterday as several opposition lawmakers resigned their party positions in open revolt over the carbon laws.
26 November 2009 | Allens joins Slaughter & May in advising a company on its plans to cancel its listing on the London Stock Exchange.
13 November 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has been recognised for its corporate social responsibility program.
4 November 2009 | New workplace legislation has made social media communications between employers and employees more dangerous for employers, according to a leading workplace relations lawyer.
13 October 2009 | The dye is cast, the deals have been counted, and law firms are angling for the top positions of the merger and acquisition leagues tables.
12 October 2009 | Mallesons has topped the merger and acquisition Australian leagues tables in terms of deal value, according to figures released today.
8 October 2009 | The question of whether Australian law firms hold the key to Asia that firms such as Norton Rose and Clifford Chance thinks it does, has been raised in the United States.
7 October 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for Rio Tinto in the negotiation of its investment agreement with the Mongolian Government for its Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold project, signed last night.
23 September 2009 | The New Lawyer can reveal that in an unlikely union, top-tier competitors Allens Arthur Robinson and Mallesons Stephen Jaques have been liaising on how to best deal with last week's decision.
22 September 2009 | Law firms came together this morning to delete a common question mark over social media. 1 comment
16 September 2009 | The federal government imposed its full regulatory weight on Telstra yesterday and made real its threats to split the telecommunications industry giant.
28 August 2009 | Private hospital operator Healthscope has gone to the market to raise $140 million after a recently announced boost in profits.
24 August 2009 | Who can claim the mighty title of being the first firm to fight for Aboriginal rights? 1 comment
19 August 2009 | Law firms Freehills and Allens Arthur Robinson sealed positions on packing company Amcor Limited's A$3.1 billion equity raising, announce yesterday.
14 August 2009 | Felix Resources, a Queensand-based coal producer, has received a $3.5 billion all-cash takeover offer from China's fourth-largest coal producer, Yanzhou Coal Mining Ltd.
13 August 2009 | Allens, Freehills, Clayton Utz claim positions on a major property deal.
13 August 2009 | Foreign law firms operating in Singapore could soon practice Singapore law.
12 August 2009 | Law firm graduate recruitment in Perth has descended in to a mad grab after Western Australia's largest firms dump the state's protocol.
01:00 PM | Allens Arthur Robinson has acted on the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank $300 million equity raising, announced yesterday.
5 August 2009 | Allens and Clayton Utz have advised on the $3.5 billion desalination project public private partnership.
22 July 2009 | Allens has advised Royal Ten Cate on the sale of a 50 per cent joint venture, worth $40 million.
20 July 2009 | Leaving a firm after many years can be difficult for law firm partners, who unlike senior executives in other industries tend to remain with the one firm for many years.
8 July 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for the Plenary Group as leader of the winning consortium for the $230 million Biosciences Research Centre project
7 July 2009 | Mergers and acquisitions lawyers are poring over the string of newly released tables ranking their deal counts, deal size and clients against those of their peers.
12 June 2009 | Pay cuts have replaced layoffs as the money saver de rigeur for law firms.
2 June 2009 | The competition watchdog says it won't oppose the planned merger of the Australian mobile communications business Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd and Vodafone.
19 May 2009 | As clients scramble to raise funds in an uncertain global economy, large firms in particular are being called upon to help. 1 comment
12 May 2009 | A changing perception around issuing equity is providing Australia's top firms with a gamut of work in the downturn.
4 May 2009 | Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Allens Arthur Robinson have united in a bid to undo growing uncertainty over the Queensland Supreme Court’s Octaviar decision.
30 April 2009 | Capital raisings are keeping law firms busy as clients rush to raise funds in an uncertain market.
29 April 2009 | Lawyers' code of ethics varies greatly to those in other professions, a new survey into professional ethics has revealed.
28 April 2009 | LAWYERS have engaged in a debate over consumer watchdog chairman Graeme Samuel's comments yesterday that many large firms will be underprepared to deal with the criminalisation of cartel activity when it comes into place in the next year.
27 April 2009 | Alarmingly high levels of depression among law students may be linked to sponsorship from a handful of large law firms and narrow career advice given to graduates.
27 April 2009 | LARGE firms will have to pull out their old criminal procedure books and brush up on how they're going to cope when the criminalisation of cartel activity comes into place in the next year, Graeme Samuel, chairman of the ACCC says.
17 April 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for global steel manufacturer OneSteel in an accelerated non-renounceable rights issue.
7 April 2009 | Kate Gibbs, editor of The New Lawyer, says firms should be more realistic about how long this recession will last. 1 comment