Investor interest in Perth's office market is set to intensify in the new year after city sales hit fresh highs in 2011 on a rapidly declining vacancy rate.
The seemingly never-ending parade of global law firms hitting Australian shores is continuing, with Ashurst's Asia-Pacific division announcing it will merge with local firm Blake Dawson.
Meridian Minerals has announced its largest shareholder, China's Northwest Nonferrous International Investment, will acquire the remaining Meridian shares it does not already own, in a deal worth $
A MOVE by 15 partners from what was the local office of Minter Ellison to start the Australia arm of US-based Squire Sanders & Dempsey marks another major shift in Western Australia's commercia
Law firms Jackson McDonald and McKenzie Moncrieff will merge to create a 32-partner firm with more than 120 professional staff, cementing it as the second biggest law firm in Western Australia.
THE size of Western Australia's legal practices has fluctuated only mildly during the past 12 months despite the sector's changing dynamics as a result of the economic slowdown.
With the new financial year commencing this week, a number of Western Australia's lawyers and accountants will be celebrating the fact as new partners of their respective firms.
THE past 12 months has been a busy and interesting period for Hunt & Humphry partner Michael Hunt, who has been ranked by his peers as the top mining lawyer in Western Australia for the second year in a row.
