Jones Day isn’t mucking around, pinching five partners in one hit from G+T, Clayton Utz, MinterEllison, Baker McKenzie and Norton Rose Fulbright. The big fish: G+T’s energy head Christopher Flynn and Clayton Utz Sydney co-head Ken Saurajen. That’s 10 laterals this year and 18 since mid-2024: Point Blank

⚖️ Governance: Mallesons has summarised lessons from the 2026 AGM season so far. Most board-backed resolutions have passed, but shareholders are getting more targeted with their dissent. Remuneration votes are still being used to protest broader governance issues, such as executive share sales or the lack of a minimum shareholding requirement. Shareholders are also voting differently on individual directors at the same meeting, with support at one AGM ranging from 78% to 99%. And for the first time, companies must table their sustainability report, and shareholders can question the auditor on it, sparking detailed climate questions: Mallesons

⚖️ IP: Getting a .com.au or .net.au domain may soon require a registered name to back it up. The auDA board has approved in principle a recommendation to scrap the rule letting businesses register domains that match their products, services, events or premises. If adopted, a domain would need to match your company name, business name or Australian trade mark. Businesses with product, campaign or event websites are most exposed, along with lead-gen sites and domain investors. It's still unclear what happens to existing domains. Review your domain portfolio now, and register matching business names where needed: HWLE

⚖️ Privilege: In Commissioner of the NDIS v Irabina Autism Services (No 5), a Commission witness said she’d drafted her own affidavit, then the Commission’s lawyers sent it back with “corrections” she couldn’t recall. Drafts prepared by lawyers are usually privileged, but that may fall away if the changes are the lawyers’ own words rather than the witness’s. The respondents argued that was the case here and asked for the draft. Horan J disagreed, refusing to assume the corrections weren’t based on the witness’s instructions. Relying on earlier authority, his Honour noted that treating ordinary affidavit drafting as a waiver would seriously undermine privilege: Federal Court

The RBA has unanimously pushed through its fourth hike of the year, taking the cash rate to 4.6%, the highest since 2011. Cotality says this year’s rises have already wiped almost $90k off the average borrower’s capacity. And BetaShares’ David Bassanese is tipping another on Melbourne Cup Day, taking it to 4.85%: ABC News

Most prospectuses warn about currency swings and key-person risk. Anthropic’s flags “existential risks to humanity”. Its IPO filing devotes 80 of 261 pages to risk factors, nearly double the 48 on the actual business, warning its models could “resist shutdown”, conceal information and behave in ways “resembling blackmail”: Reuters

⛏️ Gold Fields is reportedly weighing a sweetened bid for Northern Star, beefing up the cash component after the WA miner knocked back its $38.7bn cash-and-scrip approach as “opportunistic”. More cash could win over Northern Star holders wary of hefty Gold Fields exposure: Bloomberg

⏰ Firmus has pushed its US$5.05bn (A$7.2bn) IPO bookbuild back two days to 8 October after inking a new Meta deal. Sources say the tie-up boosts forecast EBIT, the metric that’ll decide valuation, by about 15%. Firmus is now set to list on 23 October: AFR