BRI Ferrier’s John Keenan. BRI Ferrier’s Peter Krejci. BRI Ferrier duo Peter Krejci and Jonathon Keenan are becoming accustomed to complaints of conflict as they investigate – with funding from the ATO – the affairs of various corporate groups that share among other things an aversion to paying the ATO. “At the . . . Restricted Content Dear Reader, this story is available only to…
Just like Jeffrey Bernard – or perhaps nothing like that inveterate hell raiser and Spectator columnist who drank himself so grandly to death – Despina Adgemis is unwell. So unwell in fact is the sister of low lying bankrupt-about-town Jon Adgemis that she was unable to attend the Federal Court yesterday to be examined by lawyers acting for the liquidators probing her brother’s infernally complex…
Olvera Advisors’ Damien Hodgkinson. Damien Hodgkinson has been in the thick of it in recent times and on Monday it showed, with the Olvera Advisors founder resisting subpoenas in the morning before submitting to a grilling in the afternoon. This is the result when an insolvency practitioner gets too close to overstretched corner cutters. Proximity becomes opportunity, which other practitioners will . . . Restricted…
Hamilton Murphy director Cameron Gray. Cameron Gray’s excruciating path towards terminating the winding up of Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc (MIGI) took an exceptional step this morning when the Federal Court of Australia and the Bankruptcy Court in the US state of Delaware declared that they would hear the application jointly. But there’s still some uncertain terrain for the Hamilton Murphy director to negotiate . ….
Meertens’ James McPherson. Hall Chadwick partner David Trim. Only in South Australia? Harsh perhaps but where an application was made by a creditor for the issue of examination summonses to individuals – some of whom weren’t directors or officers of the relevant company – shortly before the liquidator appointed filed a notice of intention to retire? Well then, the . . . Restricted Content Dear…
FEG czar Henry Carr. Oh to have been a big eared fly on the wall when the protagonists in the matter of McCorkell & Associates Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) v Scott Keith McCorkell & Ors assembled for mediation in a bid to avert a 10 day hearing set to commence next month. What the defendants got, according to intel iNO’s obtained, was a . ….
Cor Cordis Perth partner Tom Birch. While one judge has expressed reservations about the plaintiff’s chances of success in the Mine & Rail Company fracas, when the parties came back to court yesterday the judge docketed to preside might have given the lawyers acting for defendant deed administrators Tom Birch and Barry Wright cause for conniption. The proceedings . . . Restricted Content Dear Reader,…
Cathro Partners’ Henry Kazar. Switching from Mills Oakley to ERA may have injected fresh impetus into Henry Kazar’s pursuit of funds allegedly diverted by the controllers of Canberra-based labor hire outfit PF1 Solutions Pty Ltd (PF1) but it’s come at a cost, with a court this week ordering Kazar to find $75,000 to stump up for security for costs. The order – made in PF1…
Trustee Ross Thomson It might seem like trustees in good standing with Tim Beresford are thin on the ground but unless the Inspector General in Bankruptcy (IGB) intends to further burden the Official Trustee’s workforce then Beresford will soon be farming out a swathe of estates to private practitioners thanks to Justice Darren Jackson of the West Australian division of the Federal Court. “…. her…
Hall Chadwick’s Richard Albarran. Stewart Wilkinson of Blackbird First Mortgage Corporation is a lucky man. There’s not too many lenders who can so consistently obtain consents from Hall Chadwick’s head partner Richard Albarran, the force behind Hall Chadwick’s global expansion. Nevertheless it’s almost as if when Blackbird calls, Albarran, like an ardent suitor appears, frequently to take the role of receiver over assets pledged by…