King & Wood Mallesons has announced its intention to split into separate Australian and Chinese partnerships, marking a notable reversal in the trend to globalised law firms.
Government House official secretary Howard Gretton will lead the Western Australian team at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, having been appointed state manager at the national broadcaster.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Lanie Chopping, Rebecca Brown, Peter Woronzow, Richard Sellers, Prudence Griffin, Jessie Liu-Ernsting, Shannon Robinson, Rhys Waldon, Mark Pivac, Brett Smith, Michael Skead, Jackson Allen and Jackie Donald.
In this podcast, Mark Pownall and Simone Grogan discuss the update on Liontown; FMG's green hydrogen targets; quarterly reports; A&O merger; planning reforms and road taxes for electric vehicles.
The first of the so-called ‘magic circle' law firms to open a WA office, Allen & Overy, has announced a trans-Atlantic merger with US equivalent Shearman & Sterling.
WA lithium miner Pilbara Minerals has become the latest beneficiary of the federal government's $3.9 billion NAIF funding shower, scoring $250 million across two loans to grow its operations.
Shares in West Perth nickel junior Cannon Resources have shot up after an all-cash $45 million takeover offer from a Toronto-based private equity firm.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells has confirmed it will close its small Perth office after partner Matthew Johnson announced his move to competitor Allen & Overy.
Senior editor Mark Beyer talks about how Black Swan Theatre Company's production of Barracking for the Umpire has brought together medical research, sports and the arts.
Law firm Allen & Overy has recruited Matthew Johnson from the rapidly shrinking Perth office of Hogan Lovells, ahead of the planned retirement of A&O's top Perth partner Geoff Simpson.
Karl Simich-led Sandfire Resources is set to become one the largest listed copper producers through the $2.6 billion cash acquisition of an operation in Spain.
Pilbara Minerals has lodged a $US175 million bid for fellow lithium miner Altura Mining, though Altura is working on its own recapitalisation plan after being put in receivership.
Pilbara Minerals has announced it is considering selling between 20 per cent and 49 per cent of its Pilgangoora lithium project, as it declared commercial production from the processing plant.
Former governor and practising barrister Malcolm McCusker has been appointed chairman of Law Access, following the retirement of founding director Adam Ebell.
SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australian companies were involved in 235 corporate finance deals worth $6.9 billion in the June quarter, with new advisory firms playing an increasing role, research by Business News has found.
Allen & Overy has promoted David Jenaway to partner in its Perth litigation team. Dr Jenaway joined A&O in 2014 as a senior associate, after six years with Herbert Smith Freehills.
SPECIAL REPORT: There have been some big moves among corporate finance dealmakers in Perth, who worked on more than 850 transactions worth nearly $25 billion in 2017.
Perfecting the look and feel of a new office space can often take centre stage for incoming tenants, but for international law firm Allen & Overy a key priority for its new premises was a little different.
The Supreme Court has ordered privately owned mining company Global Advanced Metals to open its books to a minority shareholder, despite the shareholder being a competitor, a litigation adversary in the US, and having a chief executive who was found to have carelessly handled confidential information supplied earlier this year.
Norway-based investment bank Pareto Securities has completed its first major Australian deal, as sole manager of a $US100 million ($A133 million) bond issue announced today by Pilbara Minerals.
SPECIAL REPORT: The shake-out in Perth's legal services market is producing some surprising winners and losers, with one of the best performers being a firm many had expected to wither.
Upwards of 130 corporate finance transactions worth more than $11 billion were announced in WA in the June quarter, but most notable was a handful of landmark M&A deals.
WA is poised to double its LNG production, but softer oil prices and global competition for capital mean there is much conjecture about the sector's future. Click through to see more on our major oil and gas projects feature.
Business News' CEO survey has unearthed strong views on the turbulent 12 months just gone, while also offering some timely advice to our political leaders.
More than 60 CEOs from WA provided Business News with detailed views on the year past, the next 12 months, their vision for the state, and what they expect from political leaders.
