Mallesons has come home, dropping the King & Wood name in what amounts to a rare admission from a law firm: the future looks a lot like the past. The oldest thread runs to 1832 Perth, three years into the colony. The Sydney line took on AMP as a client in 1849 — still on the books today. The Melbourne practice helped incorporate NAB in 1858. Read our full history and check out our LinkedIn post here: Point Blank

⚖️ Litigation: The Fed Court has knocked back The King's School Council's bid to suppress court filings in the wrongful dismissal claim brought by former headmaster Anthony George. The Council sought wide-ranging suppression orders post-settlement, arguing disclosure would "subvert the integrity of the settlement." Wigney J wasn't having it, finding the Council hadn't cleared the heavy "necessary" threshold under s 37AF of the Federal Court of Australia Act, because the originating application and concise statement had already been deployed in open court. The Council's reliance on Saw and Patterson was distinguished on the basis that those settlements were contingent on confidentiality orders, and the pleadings were never aired publicly. Docs not used in open court were declared confidential without needing suppression orders. MinterEllison acted for the Council.

⚖️ Consumer: Emma Sleep has been ordered to pay $15m by the Federal Court after admitting to fake strikethrough pricing and self-resetting countdown timers across nearly $134.5m in sales. Justice Hill rejected both Emma Sleep's $2m proposal as inadequate and the ACCC's $36m ask as excessive. Hill found that the conduct, while deliberate and involving senior management awareness, was "far from the worst case" — consumers still received a decent quality mattress and suffered no quantifiable financial loss. Still, the company's lax compliance culture and senior management's awareness of the risk weighed heavily in favour of a substantial penalty. Corrs acted for the ACCC & Allens for Emma Sleep: ACCC

⚖️ IP: A2 Milk has won its trade mark infringement case against Care A2 Plus. Justice Rofe found the Care A2+ word mark deceptively similar to a2 Milk's registered marks, rejecting the argument that "a2/A2" had become a generic descriptor for milk containing only the A2 protein. Rofe J found Care A2 Plus had wrongly conflated a2 Milk's market leadership with genericness, and that there were many ways to describe such milk, "a2/A2" being just one. Additional damages were awarded on the basis the infringement was flagrant — Care A2 Plus had refused to cease use of the mark and instead attempted to invalidate 50 of a2 Milk's marks. Clayton Utz acted for a2 Milk; Colin Biggers & Paisley for Care A2 Plus: Lawyerly

Trump's third alleged assassination attempt in three years, and this one happened at the White House Correspondents' Dinner — hosted at the same Washington Hilton where Reagan was shot 45 years ago. Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old engineer from California stormed the lobby armed with a shotgun, handgun and three knives, and opened fire at a security checkpoint one floor above the ballroom. A Secret Service agent took a bullet to the chest, saved by his vest: ABC, BBC

Tech banker Storm Duncan is so desperate for Anthropic shares that he's offering his $4.8m San Francisco estate in exchange for stock. “What’s my other option? Not being in it?”, he said. He’s pitching to Anthropic employees who are worth $100m on paper but cash-poor because their stock is locked up pre-IPO. It’s just a 20-minute commute to Anthropic’s offices, and he's already fielding serious offers: Business Insider

🛣️ IFM Investors has lobbed a hostile $6.9bn takeover bid for Atlas Arteria at $4.75 cash per share, scaling to $5.10 if it clears 45% acceptance. Allens acts for IFM; Mallesons for Atlas. IFM, already sitting at 35% after four years of creep, ambushed the board with an 89-page bidder's statement. It timed its move as the war drove fuel prices up and Atlas shares to decade-lows. Atlas has flagged an independent board committee to consider the offer: AFR, ALX

🔧 MinterEllison (for bidder AIS) and Gilbert + Tobin (for target Matrix Composites & Engineering) are steering an all-cash scheme at $0.40 per share. ASX-listed Advanced Innergy Holdings signed the SID six months after listing on ASX. Implementation is targeted for late July, subject to FIRB, shareholder and court approvals: Point Blank

⛏️ Gilbert + Tobin has acted for Northern Star Resources on its $1.75bn syndicated loan facilities agreement plus $50m and US$99.5m in contingent instrument facilities, backed by a 12-bank syndicate. ANZ, HSBC and Westpac ran the book: Gilbert + Tobin