Deals

13 Apr 2004

B&M assists Macquarie’s Asian acquisition

Baker & McKenzie has acted for Macquarie Bank Ltd on its acquisition of the Asian equities business of the ING Group, which spans more than 10 co...

13 Apr 2004

Folklaw 9 April 2004

Please sir, I want some puppyIt is now an offence in South Australia to knowingly “consume … dogs or cats”, and you will be fined heavi...

5 Apr 2004

Deals 2 April 2004

Minter Ellison assisted Duke Energy Australia and Duke Capital Corporation in the $1.69 billion sale of Duke Energy’s Australian and New Zealand as...

5 Apr 2004

Minters advises on Chinese iron ore export

Minter Ellison was one of the key advisers to BHP Billiton’s Japanese joint venture partners in the $1.6 billion deal to supply Western Australian ...

5 Apr 2004

Folklaw 2 April 2004

Minters is pitching a singing successHere at Folklaw we are constantly impressed by the skills, experiences and multiple talents of lawyers we meet. ...

30 Mar 2004

Deals 26 March 2004

Freehills has assisted the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, in Westmead NSW, to negotiate its first licence for a new treatment it has develope...

30 Mar 2004

BDW assists Alinta’s asset acquisition

More than 50 lawyers from Blake Dawson Waldron advised Alinta Ltd on its $1.69 billion acquisition of a portfolio of assets from Duke Energy Corporati...

30 Mar 2004

Folklaw 26 March 2004

Ugg on Aussie, ugg on, ugg on Aussies’ favourite, the ugg boot, is about to stomp into court, with Australian retailers and manufacturers planning ...

23 Mar 2004

Deals 19 March 2004

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom International represented Deutsche Bank AG, Sydney Branch, and UBS AG, Australia Branch, as joint bookrunner...

23 Mar 2004

B&M advises PowerTel on takeover

Baker & McKenzie has advised telco PowerTel on its takeover of Request Broadband, only six months after a takeover bid by Telecom Venture Group (...

23 Mar 2004

Press Release of the Week

Press Release of the Week (PROW) fans will be delighted to learn that the third instalment of the PROW series has arrived — the section we prom...

9 Mar 2004

Deals 5 March 2004

Coudert Brothers has advised L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics maker, on a further Chinese acquisition. The company has purchased Yue-Sai, a...

9 Mar 2004

Deacons helps Rural Press bid

Deacons acted for Rural Press Limited on its successful takeover of Harris and Company Limited, the publisher of The Advocate newspaper and 40 per ce...

9 Mar 2004

Obiter 5 March 2004

Debt begets even more theftJailed bank robbers who have been asked to pay compensation to their victims have discussed committing further crimes in o...

9 Mar 2004

Folklaw 5 March 2004

Italy wants YOUItalian men have been pretending to be gay in order to avoid doing military service for their country. Bogus “gay” men aro...

2 Mar 2004

Deals February 27 2004

Linklaters acted as lead adviser to Air France in the airline’s merger with KLM, creating the world’s largest airline by turnover, after the airl...

2 Mar 2004

Phillips Fox aids global Avaya sale

Phillips Fox acted for multinational Avaya Inc on the Australian and South Pacific aspects of the company’s US$250 ($315) million-plus global sale ...

2 Mar 2004

Obiter February 27 2004

Knad assaultA nine year-old boy in the US has been fined $19,000 for kicking a waiter in the testicles. TheAtlanta Journal-Constitution reports the i...

24 Feb 2004

Deals February 20 2004

Freehills recently acted for furniture and homewares retailer Freedom Group on one of Australia’s largest public to private management buyouts (MBO...

24 Feb 2004

Truman assists LookSmart

Sydney corporate and communications law firm Truman Hoyle has helped LookSmart in the re-organisation and sale of its Asia Pacific intellectual proper...