PPB Advisory’s Chris Hill has saved his firm hundreds of thousands of dollars after successfully opposing an order for a subpoena sought by the directors of Force Corp (in liquidation), and thanks to Justice Fabian Gleeson, Insolvency News Online (INO) can report on the matter in detail. In the matter of Force Corp Pty Ltd (Recs and Mgrs Apptd) (in liq) [2018] NSWSC 896 (15 June 2018) we…
It’s been an eventful few weeks for far north Queensland liquidator and former ARITA member Justin James Cadman. On June 6 ARITA announced that it had expelled him from the association after ARITA’s Professional Conduct Committee ruled that he’d brought the reputation of ARITA and the profession into disrepute. That was Wednesday last week. Two days later he was bankrupted in the Federal Court, we believe following…
Costa Nicodemou and Brett Lennane are betting on specialisation to underwrite their new venture, Newpoint Advisory which opened for business in Sydney’s MLC Centre last month. Nicodemou and Lennane were principal and consultant respectively at BRI Ferrier NSW before departing in April this year. Nicodemou told Insolvency News Online (INO) there were no hard feelings in relation to the departure, despite him having worked for and with…
Well the results of ASIC’s published notices website and lodgement project’ have been collated and it appears that the vast majority of Australia’s 700 or so registered liquidators scarcely miss a beat when it comes to compliance. In ASIC works to ensure registered liquidators comply with obligations ASIC said the key finding was that: “Registered liquidators are mostly doing the right thing and lodging forms…
It may well come down to differing definitions of what constitutes a partner but however a firm structures itself, almost a third of PPB Advisory (PPBA) partners will no longer enjoy the cache the term confers once their company is formally absorbed into the professional services collectivate of PwC on August 1, 2018. Sources revealed yesterday that while 30 of PPBA’s 33 partners will be moving to PwC,…
The public examination of persons related to the failure of Waltek Industries has again exposed the vulnerabilities inherent in the referral relationship, vulnerabilities which if ignored can rebound. Louttit & Associates’ Jamieson Louttit has been conducting examinations into the curious circumstances of Waltek’s near simultaneous incorporation and failure in June 2015, assisted with funding from the Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG) recovery division. His predecessors on…
International insolvency and restructuring firm Borrelli Walsh has temporarily shelved plans to establish an Australian office in the wake of PwC’s purchase of PPB Advisory (PPBA). A source close to the firm told Insolvency News Online that the Hong Kong-headquartered firm had been about to sign a lease for premises in Sydney when news broke about the PwC takeover of PPBA, details of which were revealed exclusively by INO in: Merger: PPB…
A resolution put to a meeting of creditors by an owners corporation seeking the removal of Henry McKenna as liquidator of Iris Diversified Property Pty Ltd has been confirmed by the NSW Supreme Court this week. On Tuesday, June 6, 218 Justice Ashley Black ordered that the soon-to-be ex-Jirsch Sutherland partner be replaced by O’Brien Palmer’s Chris Palmer and Liam Bailey and that the incoming appointees’ costs by…
Whilst INO is loath to encourage a perception that it should change its masthead to “Expulsion Monthly”, it behoves us to report that the Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (ARITA) has cast out another member, the third such eructation since April. The latest to fall foul of the ARITA Code of Professional Practice is Queensland practitioner Justin James Cadman, who readers may recall was…
Insolvent trading actions might be rare but they can have a galvanising effect on directors, as evidenced by the findings of his honour Judge Matthew Dicker of the NSW District Court in the matter of Inner West Demolition (NSW) Pty Limited v Silk [2018] NSWDC 136. In this instance Inner West Demolition initiated proceedings seeking to prise $327,332.50 under s 588M of the Corporations Act…