Thomson Geer takes team from KPMG Law

National law firm Thomson Geer has swelled the ranks of its workplace practice with the addition of a team from KPMG...

04 October 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Minters hires KPMG law’s national real estate head as new special counsel

BigLaw firm has appointed the former national head of real estate law from KPMG Law as its newest special...

17 September 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

‘Law within the big 4 is dying slowly’ despite disruption to Australian market

Following the recent KPMG restructuring, the current economic climate could mean that, despite continued disruption to...

07 August 2024

By Lauren Croft

KPMG cuts legal division, 30 jobs in major restructure

The big four firm has announced a restructure of its legal business less than a month after its $80 million consulting...

16 July 2024

By Naomi Neilson

KPMG names 3 new legal partners in cohort of 52

KPMG Australia has appointed 52 new partners – 43 of whom were promoted and nine of whom were lateral hires –...

28 June 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Pinsent Masons launches Aussie TMT practice with team from KPMG Law

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has continued to unveil new practice areas for its Australian operations, this...

04 March 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

KPMG names 2 new partners

Big four firm KPMG has unveiled 94 new partners in Australia, two of whom are in its legal...

06 July 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

KPMG unveils internal ChatGPT, ‘KymChat’

Following news that Allen & Overy and PwC are utilising legal chatbot, “Harvey”, KPMG has become the latest big...

27 March 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Pandemic-inspired fraud soon to come to light

Given how long it usually takes to detect fraudulent behaviour, it is likely that fraud that occurred during the age of...

10 May 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

BigLaw firm nabs team from big 4 outfit

A BigLaw firm has secured an M&A and ECM team from a big four firm, in a move to support the “explosive growth”...

09 February 2022

By Lauren Croft

Clayton Utz recruits KPMG Law lead

Clayton Utz has welcomed a top tax controversy lawyer to its partnership, who joins from KPMG

16 August 2021

By Emma Musgrave

KPMG report highlights serious contracting issues

A new report has highlighted a significant problem with contracts and found that a high number of organisations have...

05 July 2021

By Lauren Croft

ARMS Reliability sold to Baker Hughes

Global reliability solutions provider ARMS Reliability has been advised on its sale to NYSE-listed tech group Baker...

07 June 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

Fraud risk set to rise

Australian businesses believe that the risk of fraudulent activity, especially insider threats, will be increasingly...

23 March 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

Will legal work be subsumed into businesses?

By 2025, it is likely that legal processes “that are not bespoke” will be done by the broader business and not the...

02 March 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

Will the legal COO become as important as the GC?

By 2025, leadership of the legal function will need to expand as the traditional general counsel role will be unable to...

23 February 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

KPMG recruits legal ops head

KPMG Australia has confirmed a new head of legal operations transformation services has joined its growing...

21 January 2021

By Emma Musgrave

KPMG Law

KPMG (Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler) Law is a network of independent member law firms composed of legal professional...

05 February 2018

By Tim Johnson