Insurance broker EBM has appointed a new leadership team and announced the retirement of long-standing managing director Jeff Adams at the end of this year.
Wesfarmers has appointed Maya vanden Driesen to the position of group general counsel, putting her in charge of a national team of 42 in-house lawyers.
The top end of the accounting profession in Western Australia has nearly doubled in size over the past decade, whereas the state’s major law firms have recorded minimal growth, according to employment data compiled by Business News.
Kerry Stokes is one of Australia’s wealthiest and most private business leaders, but that has changed with the release of two biographies in two years. However conspicuous gaps in what we know about his deals and erstwhile partners remain.
Law firm Clifford Chance has lost the two partners who established the forerunner to its Perth office, after Michael Lishman accepted an offer to join corporate advisory firm Gresham Partners. His move follows the retirement of Ian Cochrane at the end of last year.
Shares in accounting firm Crowe Horwath surged on the news it had finalised an acquisition proposal from Financial Index Wealth Accountants for about $137 million, following five months of negotiations.
WA Insolvency Solutions has announced a merger with national insolvency accounting practice Jirsch Sutherland, with the six WA offices continuing to trade under their existing name.
Toronto-based design and engineering services provider WSP Global has bought Balfour Beatty’s New York-based professional services subsidiary, Parsons Brinkerhoff, for $1.45 billion.
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The GFC and new technology have put increasing pressure on law firms, but local firm HHG Legal Group is taking the opportunity to tailor a new service for the middle segment of the market.
Eighteen months on from its acquisition of Perth-based law firm Middletons, US-based law practice K&L Gates says its expectations for the tie-up have been exceeded.
Professional men in Australia are more than twice as likely as women to see their gender as an advantage in the professional workplace, a survey suggests.
Deloitte has promoted six new partners in its Perth office, and transferred a seventh from Adelaide, following a 6.5 per cent increase in the accounting firm's national revenue to $1.16 billion for
Sue Ash, Frank Cooper, Hendy Cowan and Ian Ritchie are among the Western Australians to have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours this year.
Accounting firm Crowe Horwath has entered into exclusive takeover talks with a partnership between wealth management group Financial Index Wealth Accountants and private equity firm KKR Asset Management, snubbing rival bidder Anchorage Capital Partners.
Two-and-a-half years after entering the Australian market, Squire Sanders is set to expand its international reach through a merger with fellow US law firm Patton Boggs.
Patersons Securities plans to introduce an employee share scheme to help bolster its net assets by at least $15 million, after posting its third interim loss in succession.
Global law firm Jones Day will open a Perth office in April this year with plans to focus attention on project disputes in the state's growing energy sector.
Accounting group PKF will find itself in the unusual position of having two member firms in Perth, after the members of the mid-tier Lawler alliance agreed to join the global network.
Journalists and lawyers will soon be able to use electronic devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones to access the internet and social media in Western Australian courts.
The newly-appointed Perth-based chairman of national accountancy group Walker Wayland Australasia says he plans to use his new role to grow the business in Western Australia.
The new management team at accounting firm Lawrence Business Management has agreed to buy the business for $7.3 million cash from listed company Countplus, after two years of restructuring.
