Boutique house Garda Capital Group has raised $16 million and will list on the Australian Securities Exchange as one of a new breed of property equity and debt fund managers. The group will start with a market capitalisation of $24million and look to grow from its base...
Read MoreWHEN clients of veteran Brisbane lawyer Bill Delaney could not afford to pay their bill half a century ago, he used to gladly accept a couple of chooks in kind. Mr Delaney, whose family firm Delaney & Delaney, last year celebrated its 100th anniversary, now practices...
Read MoreBRISBANE lawyers are expecting a year propelled by the high-end corporate market, particularly in the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions, as the dollar continues to freefall and foreign investors take more of a shine to the property market. Brisbane Legal spoke to Talbot Sayer, Piper Alderman...
Read MoreMerger and acquisition activity looks set to flourish as long-awaited mega-deals emerge, buoyed by the low Australian dollar, lower financing costs and an abundance of opportunities. Top-end firms are not the only beneficiaries, as upstart boutiques muscle in on the action, taking advantage of an increasing...
Read MoreAustralia is being seen as a test case for the global future of the popular ride sharing service Uber. Canberra has embraced the company while court cases in other states are still pending. Australia, where Uber is popular but mostly illegal, offers a microcosm of the...
Read MoreA McCullough Robertson partner will move across to Brisbane boutique Talbot Sayer Lawyers to open the firm's property arm. Dan Collins, the former head of the food and agribusiness practice at McCullough Robertson, will join the boutique firm in December. “We have known Dan for a long...
Read MoreThe nation's largest law firms are in the grip of a tough market that saw demand for their services slump for the third consecutive year, triggered in part by a growing trend of companies taking more work in-house. The overall drop of about 2 per cent...
Read MoreA flood of billion-dollar deals has boosted Australian M&A activity in the first half of this year. Felicity Nelson reports After cost-cutting their way through the GFC, companies are looking to M&A as a way to fast-track growth and stay competitive. The first half of 2015 has...
Read MoreIt is not often that a fledgling Brisbane law firm tops the big boys. But only a year since opening their doors, the legal eagles at Talbot Sayer are popping the champagne corks after beating top-tier firms across Australia and New Zealand in the lucrative mergers...
Read MoreBrisbane boutique law firm Talbot Sayer has outranked top-tier firms on M&A league tables just 12 months after opening its doors. The eight-staff firm was ranked at the top of Thomson Reuters league tables for deals up to $50 million in the first quarter of 2015. The...
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