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Property developer Luke Saraceni and his business partner Hossean Pourzand have struck a funding deal with IMF (Australia) to support their legal action over the Raine Square development.

Sundance Resources has entered into a placement agreement to raise $60m from international investors.

WorleyParsons has won a $250 million contract with Fortescue Metals Group to provide engineering services to expand port facilities in Port Hedland.

Rio Tinto has struck an agreement over its giant Simandou iron ore project in Africa that will see the company pay US$700 million to the government of Guinea and hand 15 per cent of the project to the government at no cost.

The CME should be careful what it wishes for as the good times roll.

It’s worth taking note when scientists buck-up against a Labor government.

John D’Orazio was a central figure in the turmoil that eventually brought Labor’s reign, under Alan Carpenter to an end.

The arrival of international players has disrupted the local market.

THE arrival of international players in the Perth legal scene has been a talking point for more than a year, and remains a big issue in the sector.

IF you took away the names of the leading law firms in Perth and focused on the numbers of lawyers, it would be hard to believe that the legal sector has participated in the dramatic changes in the Western Australian economy during the past decade.

AMONG the 3,400 delegates at the recent Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Asso-ciation annual conference in Perth was lawyer Paul Griffin.

The growing number of high-net-worth individuals in Perth has attracted one of the more exclusive players providing advice in that realm – The Myer Family Company.

Women lawyers in Western Australia are calling for employers to put an end to the inflexible work hours, lack of promotion and recognition and pay inequalities that cause many women to exit the legal profession.

INVESTORS bought-up a parcel of apartments in Perth’s highest residential tower this week as they sought to capitalise on the city’s ailing apartment market.

THINK about the last 25 sales you didn’t make.What happened?Why didn’t you make them?

Management at Civmec are confident their new $30 million facility can help put the state back on the map as a fabrication centre.

GEOFF and Wendy Watters have taken a measured approach to growing Southside Mechanical Services over the past decade, allowing time to find the right quality driven process at each stage of development.

THE organisation behind the historic Fairbridge site at Pinjarra has gone full circle during the past century.

Perth chocoholics have been given an early Easter surprise with the opening of the first Koko Black ‘salon’ last month. Carolyn Herbert reports.

The government’s carbon tax proposal gets more convoluted by the day.

It may be an inconvenient truth, but companies must take the lead in bringing business and society back together.

Among the many big policy issues facing government, workplace relations could have the largest impact on business.

Development giant Mirvac has unveiled its latest Western Australian residential community, the $75 million Highland Reserve at Jane Brook.

The state's largest renewable energy project, located near Merredin, has passed a major milestone with Western Power completing a $20 million project to connect the wind farm to the grid.

Consolidated Minerals has urged shareholders of OM Holdings to reject its proposed dual listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and has flagged major changes to the OM Holdings board.

Higher-than-expected construction costs are hurting the government’s great infrastructure project – the NBN.

Julia Gillard may have neutralised the GST as an issue during her recent visit west, but there’s still plenty of manoeuvring ahead on that front.

Christian Porter might be planning to prime the pump in his May budget.

The travel agency sector is crowded with suppliers, wholesalers and retailers, but two major players dominate the local scene. Emily Morgan reports.

Online bookings have provided travel agents with an enormous challenge.

HAVE you ever heard of the Burghound? He’s a wine geek based in the US who, after finishing up as a CFO for a Fortune 500 company, decided to embark on a completely new career as a wine reviewer.

Despite a pipeline of multi-million dollar projects the Diploma Group faces the challenge of converting those dollars into profits.