Our weekly appointments wrap includes Wes Smith, Basil Lenzo, Nathan Harman, Chiara Pacifici, Joe Totaro, Kristie Young, Steven Lawrence, Neale Fong, Peter Mansell, Lee Guthrie, Paul Lombard and Sandra Bell.
Dual-listed contractor DRA Global has announced the surprise departure of four directors, including chairman Peter Mansell, following 'engagement' with the company's biggest shareholder.
ASX-listed contractor DRA Global has been hit with a $9 million lawsuit from former chief executive officer Andrew Naude over alleged breaches of his employment contract.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Fiona Hick, Christopher Kohne, Brodie McCulloch, Zahra Peggs, Dean Misdale, Kevin Wilson, Hanno Van Der Merwe, Julian Anthony, Derek La Ferla, Fiona Campbell and Theo Smyrniotis.
Peter Mansell will resign as chair of Energy Resources of Australia amid conflicting claims surrounding the multi-billion dollar rehabilitation of the Ranger uranium mine.
A plan hatched by a consortium of senior managers at DRA Global to remove the engineering company's chair and chief executive last month has been elevated to the takeovers panel.
International engineering company DRA Global has pressed the button on its long-anticipated ASX float, after a major ownership restructure earlier this year.
Rio Tinto said it will subscribe to $326 million rights shares of Energy Resources of Australia, which has been desperately seeking funds to close and rehabilitate the controversial Ranger uranium mine.
Struggling gold producer Eastern Goldfields has announced a $75 million recapitalisation deal and board overhaul led by private mining services company Adaman Resources.
Tap Oil has announced the resignation of four of the company's directors, including executive chairman James Menzies and Peter Mansell, with two nominations from major shareholder Risco Energy Investments appointed as replacements.
The Takeovers Panel has rejected an application by Tap Oil claiming its two biggest shareholders had become associated, with the panel refusing to make a declaration of unacceptable circumstances.
It was 20 years' ago this month that Perth's two largest law firms surprised the business community by merging their operations. Herbert Smith Freehills hosted many of the 50-plus partners who were there at the time to mark the occasion.
Tap Oil says it expects to resolve outstanding disputes with a dissident shareholder after announcing a major restructure that will see the current chairman retire and three new directors join the board.
The former chair of WA Newspaper Holdings, Western Power, and Zinifex, Peter Mansell, has been appointed chair of Darwin-based Rio Tinto subsidiary Energy Resources of Australia, which operates the
Norton Gold Fields chief executive Dianmin Chen and director Noel White have been made non-executive directors of Bullabulling Gold, following acceptance of the company's takeover offer.
Shares in cashed-up Moly Mines have slumped after the company's two most senior executives left the business and it admitted it was likely to suspend trading on the ASX after failing to acquire a new business.
Africa-focused gold explorer Ampella Mining has appointed Josef El-Raghy as chairman.Mr El-Raghy, who is also chairman of Egyptian gold producer Centamin, will replace Peter Mansell.
Moly Mines has announced another boardroom shakeup in the wake of the arrest in Hong Kong earlier this week of one of the company's major shareholder's senior executives.
Subiaco-based gold explorer Ampella Mining has recommended its shareholders approve a proposed $41 million off-market takeover bid from Egypt-focused miner Centamin.
VETERAN director Peter Mansell continues to rebuild his corporate portfolio with an appointment to a special advisory role with emerging resources investor Hanlong Mining Investment.
Hanlong Mining has appointed former WA Newspapers and Western Power chairman Peter Mansell to help achieve the company's aspirations of becoming a large international mining house.
Ampella Mining has appointed former WA Newspapers and Western Power chairman Peter Mansell as its new chairman following the departure of chairman and director Bill Ryan last month.
THE Australian Institute of Company Directors has enlisted the help of some of Western Australia's heavyweight directors in a new push to increase the number of women in the boardrooms of the nation's top listed companies.
AS legal fights go, the long-running battle between the University of WA, former staff member Dr Bruce Gray, and the company he founded, Sirtex Medical, is bigger and nastier than most, but one piece of good news has unfolded.
The board of West Australian Newspapers has undergone a major shakeup today with four directors, including chairman Peter Mansell and managing director Ken Steinke, tendering their resignation.
Nearly a year after seeking board seats and more than six months after their demand became hostile, Kerry Stokes and Peter Gammell are to become directors of West Australian Newspaper Holdings Ltd.
It's often said that true character is revealed in times of adversity, and in the past 18 months Perth has witnessed two enormous boardroom battles that have shone a revealing light on some of the state's most prominent company directors.
Media magnate Kerry Stokes stepped up his attack on WA Newspapers Holdings Ltd today, telling nearly 1,200 Western Australian business people that the publisher had lost focus to its customers.
