19 March 2010 | The Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto has signed an agreement with the Chinese metals group Chinalco to develop an iron ore project in Guinea. Law firms Allens Arthur Robinson and Baker & McKenzie are drilling into the deals.
8 March 2010 | Glass ceilings, slippery ladders, boys' clubs and fraternities are finally being eradicated in an elite list of law firms, the government announced today.
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.
1 October 2009 | The proposed changes to executive remuneration laws took a step forward this week with the Productivity Commission releasing a draft report into the changes.
1 October 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for Yahoo!7 in its acquisition of totaltravel.com, the online travel information marketplace.
28 September 2009 | Two top-tier firms have advised the Victorian Government on its new transport legislation.
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.
01:00 PM | Law firms came together this morning to delete a common question mark over social media. 1 comment
16 September 2009 | Victorian law firms have increased their pro bono contributions as the economy falters.
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.
7 September 2009 | Five major Australian firms are on the brink of announcing their own support services for young graduate staff and law students.
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
21 August 2009 | An Indigenous paralegal at Allens gives us inside info as the firm launches a 'reconciliation action plan'.
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 | 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.
11 August 2009 | 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.
02:45 PM | 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.
13 July 2009 | The legal profession continues to make appointments and promotions in its top ranks as partner announcements come through and firms boost key practice areas with new talent. 1 comment
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
6 July 2009 | A healthy run of capital raisings is expected to continue into the new financial year, as companies look to grow their businesses and take advantage of bargain deals.
3 July 2009 | It has been confirmed that more than 100 staff at Allens Arthur Robinson have been approved for redundancy.
2 July 2009 | The global financial crisis has forced law firms to re-evaluate their work practices and provided a catalyst for change in the legal sector, according to participants in a round-table discussion hosted by LexisNexis recently. 1 comment
1 July 2009 | A new program is pairing up small to medium sized regional firms with large city practices for pro bono work.
30 June 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has been inundated with voluntary redundancy applications by its staff with approximately 100 taking up the firm's offer.
29 June 2009 | The Federal Court made a significant step in what is likely to be a long and painful process of judicial interpretation of Australia’s financial supply rules with a recent decision.
26 June 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson and Freehills have orchestrated the sale of Aviva Australia Holdings Ltd to the National Australia Bank (NAB).
12 June 2009 | Pay cuts have replaced layoffs as the money saver de rigeur for law firms.
10 June 2009 | Emails have been going around Deacons, alerting staff to the news that the Sydney chairman, Nick Abrahams, will be sleeping on the streets. 3 comments
5 June 2009 | RIO Tinto and BHP Billiton have struck a joint venture to bring together the two companies' iron ore interests in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Allens and Freehills have scooped the landmark deal.
4 June 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for GPT RE Limited in relation to the transaction for the sale of the Floreat Forum shopping centre to Perth-based Australasian Property Investments.
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.
29 May 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for Charter Hall Group on a A$118 million raising with strategic investment from Gandel Group.
26 May 2009 | ASIC's surprise lifting of the ban on short-selling yesterday marks the end of a period of regulatory uncertainty for equity markets participants, an Allens Arthur Robinson partner has claimed.
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.
8 May 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson is acting for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on its proposal to acquire stapled securities in Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group.
7 May 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson acts on the GPT Group capital raising.
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.
21 April 2009 | LAW firms are implementing four-day working weeks as an alternative to retrenchments and universally cutting salaries. 1 comment
17 April 2009 | Lawyers will have to be flexible about moving between practice areas and will have the opportunity to snap up a redundancy package as part of a new program coming into effect at Allens Arthur Robinson.
17 April 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson is the latest firm to announce a salary freeze as a result of the global financial crisis.
17 April 2009 | Allens Arthur Robinson has acted for global steel manufacturer OneSteel in an accelerated non-renounceable rights issue.
14 April 2009 | DOING deals in China just got riskier. Following the block of Coca-Cola's $2.4 billion takeover of the nation's biggest juice manufacturer, two of Australia's top law firms confirm M&A work in China is changing.
9 April 2009 | Asia Pacific firm Allens Arthur Robinson has opened new premises in Jakarta.
9 April 2009 | The world is a bigger place, but how far has the global financial crisis stymied the opportunities available to lawyers who want to work across borders? Allens Arthur Robinson partner Tim Lester writes.
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
2 April 2009 | BLAKE Dawson continues to get a kicking for its woeful handling of its redundancy process, while everyone at Clayton Utz is “psychotic”. So reads the offensive on a newly released Australian law firm survey.
31 March 2009 | At Gilbert + Tobin there have "been no retrenchments", while at Mallesons Stephen Jaques the mood "seems pretty upbeat". These are the insights into the market from anonymous sources, tapped up on the Justinian site.