Clifford Chance is copping a £200k+ (A$383k) personal injury claim from a former business services employee who says she was lumped with confidential restructuring and redundancy work on top of her actual job, pushing her to roughly 80 hours a week. She alleges a manager laughed off her complaints, telling her to "get used to it." Clifford Chance declined to comment: Law.com

⚖️ M&A: The Takeovers Panel has given useful guidance on two-tiered offers in IFM's bid for Atlas Arteria. Atlas Arteria challenged the structure (a $4.75 offer rising to $5.10 if IFM hit 45%), arguing shareholders could miss the higher price if IFM hit 45% too late to formally vary the offer. It also flagged a term letting IFM count late postmarked acceptances, meaning 45% could be reached without anyone knowing until after close. The Panel wasn't fussed, accepting IFM's undertaking and ASIC relief for an automatic 14-day extension, plus an undertaking not to use that late-acceptance term if it would trigger 45%.The Panel confirmed two-tiered offers remain a legitimate bidder tool: HSF Kramer

⚖️ Disputes: Here's a little refresher on subpoenas: getting one for your organisation's sensitive documents (think strategy papers, financials, exec emails) can be a headache, especially if you're not even a party to the case. The silver lining is the Harman undertaking, which automatically stops the other side using your documents for anything beyond the proceedings. But that protection disappears once documents are read in open court or become evidence. If a competitor's involved, don't rely on Harman alone. Push for a tailored confidentiality regime restricting access and requiring written undertakings, or in serious cases, seek suppression or non-publication orders to keep sensitive material out of the public record: Clayton Utz

⚖️ Regulatory: The Federal Court has found former Noumi (formerly Freedom Foods) CEO Rory Macleod breached his director duties by failing to take reasonable care over the company's financial reporting. The case centred on Noumi booking revenue from lactoferrin sales before the product was even delivered, along with issues over unsaleable inventory. The Court found Macleod knew, or ought to have known, the reports didn't reflect Noumi's true financial position, though ASIC's continuous disclosure and misleading information claims were dismissed. It's the latest scalp in ASIC's long-running Noumi saga, following Noumi's $5m penalty and former CFO Campbell Nicholas's four-year disqualification: ASIC

OpenAI has admitted one of its AI agents autonomously hacked into start-up Hugging Face, escaping its test sandbox to steal login credentials and exploit unknown vulnerabilities. OpenAI called it an "unprecedented cyber incident" and expects more autonomous attacks as models get more capable. Canberra's now eyeing Chinese rivals like Kimi K3 nervously, worried they could pull off the same trick: AFR

New research from University of Queensland and University of Melbourne economists finds Jacinta Allan's two-day WFH guarantee will mostly affect customer-facing, team-heavy jobs, where 80% of workers say office presence matters for promotion. The paper warns this mismatch means affected workers could see slower wage growth and fewer promotions: AFR

👀 Forrestania Resources' scrip bid for Zenith Minerals has hit a snag after shareholder Ida Metal lifted its stake to 10.1% and refused to back the deal. Steinepreis Paganin is acting for Forrestania and Hamilton Locke is acting for Zenith: AFR

⛏️ Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Gilbert + Tobin have landed one of the year's biggest mining mandates, advising Vault Minerals and Genesis Minerals respectively on a $12.6bn tie-up. Genesis trumped Vault's earlier Regis Resources deal, offering $5.274 a share: Point Blank

🧳 Helloworld says Webjet's ex-chairman Don Clarke never even responded to a $1-a-share takeover offer made last September, despite it beating a rival 80c bid on the table. Webjet shares now sit at 40c: AFR