Australian law firm Freehills and English firm Herbert Smith announced today that their partners have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a merger to create a new firm that will trade as Herbert Smit
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.
Chinese investment group Wah Nam International has moved to gain full ownership of iron ore company Brockman Resources, through a takeover pitched at less than half the value of its original offer.
An Aboriginal perspective of the Canning Stock Route drawn from art centres along the remote desert track has been recognised in this year's national Australia Business Arts Foundation awards.
THE celebration of Western Australia's top business-arts partnerships this week revealed the increasingly important contribution small and medium-sized businesses are making to the state's creative
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.
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.
ADELAIDE corporate law firm, Johnson Winter & Slattery, has continued its national expansion, recruiting two senior Freehills partners to establish a Perth office.
The booming advisory market in Perth is creating some musical chairs among the key players, with corporate lawyer Justin Mannolini heading to Gresham Advisory Partners Ltd, prompting Freehills to fill the vacancy by appointing a new partner, Simon Reed.
Ten years ago this month, Perth's legal profession underwent a seismic change when the city's two largest firms, Parker & Parker and Freehill, Hollingdale & Page, agreed to merge.
Three substantial commercial law firms have been established in Perth in the past year and each has adopted a fundamentally different strategy and business model.
Law firm Freehills is looking to expand its intellectual property and technology practice in Perth after recruiting Minter Ellison special counsel David Stewart and his two support staff.
The new financial year has triggered a series of changes at the top of Perth's big law firms with senior partners leaving MinterEllison, Clayton Utz and Freehills.
