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Subiaco-based Australis Oil & Gas has held its ground on its ASX debut, following completion of a $30 million initial public offering earlier this month.

SPECIAL REPORT: The dramatic rise and fall of iron ore producers and the recent surge in gold and lithium stocks have been highlighted by a historic review of WA's major listed companies.

Subiaco-based Australis Oil & Gas has lodged its prospectus for a $30 million initial public offering, with plans to list on the ASX within a month.

SPECIAL REPORT: Wealthy Western Australians have made some eye-popping philanthropic pledges over the years but none as large as one of Gina Rinehart's recent moves.

The team behind Western Australian success story Aurora Oil & Gas has quietly completed a $24 million private placement, the first capital raising for their new oil and gas play, three months after acquiring their first assets in Portugal.

We've analysed 450 WA takeovers and capital raisings worth $18 billion to rank the top advisers, brokers and lawyers.

Two Melbourne-based foreign exchange brokerage founders have been named the Ernst & Young 2014 Australian Entrepreneurs of the Year, with Aurora Oil and Gas founder Jonathan Stewart also being named one of six category winners.

The combined wealth of WA's richest public company directors fell by around $3 billion in the past year, but some individuals bucked the trend.

Oil and gas dealmaker Peter Allchurch has teamed up with fellow Aurora Oil & Gas founder John Kenny, and Houston-based geologist Neville Henry, to list US-focused shale oil hopeful Winchester Energy.

Westoz Investment Company stated that it almost tripled its reported profit in the 2014 financial year, with an increase in after tax profit from $7.4 million last year to $21.2 million.

Seventeen Western Australian business people have been nominated as finalists in the 2014 round of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year award.

SPECIAL REPORT: The gold and technology sectors have experienced a boost in investment activity for the March quarter, but doubts remain over whether it will last.

Aurora Oil & Gas has almost doubled its full-year profit after a solid spike in the number of new wells in production.

The directors of US-focused Aurora Oil & Gas have recommended that shareholders accept a $1.84 billion takeover offer from Canadian oil company Baytex Energy.

FEATURE: A diverse array of privately held and public-listed companies is angling to become the next success story in the onshore oil and gas sector.

Oil and gas entrepreneur Peter Allchurch is set to become a major shareholder in Perth company TW Holdings after striking a deal to sell a Texas shale oil project to the listed company.

Aurora Oil & Gas chairman Jonathan Stewart has sold off a million shares in the company, raising more than $3.4 million.

Aurora Oil & Gas technical director Ian Lusted has resigned, after six years with the shale gas producer.

Aurora Oil & Gas technical director Ian Lusted has resigned, after six years with the shale gas producer.

Investors who kept their money in Australia's top blue chip stocks enjoyed great returns in the 2012-13 financial year.

HOW does the managing director of an aspiring nickel miner remain positive amid weakening commodities prices and an equities market in decline?

It's an old adage that some of the biggest fortunes have been made when business conditions are at their toughest.

Once seen as an attractive capital source for Australian companies, regulatory hurdles in Canada combined with depressed global markets have dampened enthusiasm for dual listings.

Fresh from announcing plans to develop the Iron Valley mine in the Pilbara, Mineral Resources has become the eleventh Western Australian company in the S&P/ASX 100 Index.

IN 2005, when many oil and gas majors were exploring offshore, a group of Perth-based businessmen took a different tack by entering into unconventional onshore oil and gas in the US.

THE past 12 months was a lean time for lawyers working in the corporate finance field, with a slump in both takeover deals and capital raisings.

The value of shares held by some of the biggest names in mining have slumped along with the companies they lead, but there are pockets of good news in what has been a tough year on the markets.

Far away from the carnage in the iron ore sector, directors at select Western Australian companies in the gold, oil and gas and engineering sectors are being handsomely rewarded through the exercis

Finding big WA winners on the stock market has been hard work during the past 12 months, and even the past five years.

WITH some experienced campaigners suggesting the current mergers and acquisitions market is the worst they have ever seen, there is plenty of finger pointing to overly exuberant deals of the past f

The corporate advisory market is in the doldrums as global forces restrain players.

Aurora Oil and Gas has announced it will be elevated into the S&P/ASX100 index later this month, making it the 11th WA-based firm to join the top 100 listed companies in Australia .

Aurora Oil and Gas has completed a $120 million capital raising to fund exploration and development at its shale gas acreage in Texas.

ASX and Toronto-listed Aurora Oil and Gas has beefed up its holding in the highly-prospective Sugarloaf shale gas field in the United States, snapping up a 6 per cent stake for $US95 million ($95.3

Perth based oil and gas junior Aurora Oil and Gas has announced a $107 million, unconditional on-market cash takeover bid for Eureka Energy.

Aurora Oil & Gas has secured a $300 million credit facility to fund ongoing exploration at its Sugarkane Eagle Ford oil and gas project in Texas.

WA's emerging mining companies delivered spectacular gains last financial year, for the astute investors who picked the right stocks.

Patersons Securities has retained top spot in WA Business News' annual survey of capital raisings, followed by Hartleys, Euroz Securities and Macquarie Capital Advisers.

GETTING value for money is a subjective matter when it comes to assessing executive pay.