Sydney-based GrainCorp has emerged as a cornerstone investor in a bid to corporatise and list CBH Group, through a complex deal that would deliver up to $1 billion in cash plus share
Santos and Quadrant Energy have signed a deal for the sale of the Stag oil project in the Carnarvon Basin to Malaysian company Sona Petroleum for $US50 million ($A70 million).
Forge Group founder Peter Hutchinson is planning to move into agribusiness, with ASX-listed Style announcing the $20 million acquisition of Nor-West Seafoods.
Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.
Clifford Chance, Ashurst and Gilbert + Tobin have been ranked as the top law firms in the Business News 2014 corporate finance league table, but for very different reasons.
Shares in Perth company Resource Equipment have climbed 85.7 per cent today after the board recommended a cash takeover offer valuing the company at $115.5 million.
Neon Energy may be leaving its Perth headquarters after entering into a merger implementation agreement with MEO Australia, which would create a combined entity based in Melbourne.
Perth-based Altona Mining announced the completion of its $US95 million Finnish assets sale to Swedish miner Boliden Mineral AB and has received $US89.2 million in cash as the first tranche of payment.
Leading mining lawyer Michael Blakiston has criticised Premier Colin Barnett's comments urging African mining leaders not to be intimidated by global mining companies and to ensure their citizens received a fair return for their resource exploitation.
Perth-based Altona Mining has agreed to sell all of its Finnish operations and most of its exploration assets to Swedish miner Boliden Mineral AB for about $US95 million.
FEATURE: The writing was on the wall, and has been for more than a decade. Royal Dutch Shell's divestment of most of its 23 per cent stake in Woodside Petroleum last week surprised few in the business community.
Perth-based City Farmers has been sold for $205 million, just nine months after managing director Clayton Hollingsworth struck a deal for Quadrant Private Equity to pay $93 million for a major stake in the pet care retailer.
Iron Ore Holdings' Buckland project has been deemed technically and commercially viable following the completion of a feasibility study at a cost of about $30 million.
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.
Shares in West Leederville-based Glory Resources have soared on the back of the gold explorer receiving a $30.5 million friendly takeover offer from Canadian miner Eldorado Gold.
Sundance Resources has signed agreements to raise $40 million from a consortium of investors as it looks to progress its Mbalam-Nabebe iron ore project in West Africa.
Diversified conglomerate Wesfarmers looks set to acquire risk management and compliance firm Greencap in an all-scrip takeover bid worth up to $21.2 million.
Sundance Resources is on the brink of big changes, as its 18-month takeover saga approaches a finale and its African iron ore project completes major milestones.
Integra Mining has agreed to a $426 million takeover by fellow gold miner Silver Lake Resources in a move that will create one of the nation's larger producers of the precious metal.
OAKAJEE Port and Rail and other sponsors are keen to grow opportunities for indigenous artists in the Mid West by building on the success of the Good Heart Mid West Aboriginal Art Exhibition.
Nine international and interstate law firms have entered the WA market in the past two-and-a-half years and more are likely to follow. The industry is still debating what it really means.
MAYBE it's human nature when times are uncertain, but when corporate finance players in Perth were asked to comment on market trends over the past year, most had a glass half-empty perspective.
Iron Ore Holdings has offloaded its Koodaideri South iron ore tenements in the Pilbara to Rio Tinto in exchange for $32 million cash plus a 2 per cent royalty payment.
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
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey has become the latest international law firm to move into the Western Australian market, announcing plans for a merger with the local office of Minter Ellison.
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.
Catalpa Resources will buy Conquest Mining to form a $1.1 billion growth-focused gold miner, in which gold giant Newcrest Mining will hold a one-third stake.
