Greyhouse Partners’ Ben Verney. O’Brien Palmer’s Chris Palmer. Victorian practitioner Ben Verney is clinging tenaciously to the administration of Icon Constructions (NSW) Pty Ltd but decisions he made in respect of proofs of debt at the first meeting could see him stripped of the appointment before the year is ended. Lawyers for Owners Corporations (OCs), developers and unit owners claiming for building defects – this…
Struck-off liquidator David Iannuzzi. Former Veritas Advisory director Steve Naidenov. The public examination conducted by Brooke Bird’s Robyn Erskine over the last month has been instructive on multiple levels. For a start, it’s put ex-liquidator David Iannuzzi in the witness box for the second time in as many months. That’s an ordeal Iannuzzi might have thought he’d avoided when in November last year Federal Court…
Departing Deloitte partner Vaughan Strawbridge. Deloitte Queensland managing partner John Greig. Insiders close to the Virgin administration have rejected elements of speculation around Deloitte partner Vaughan Strawbridge‘s decision to defect to FTI which iNO reported recently. No swords were crossed by the administrators in the engineering of Virgin’s DoCA was the word from well placed sources, who dismissed rumours Strawbridge and Deloitte Queensland managing partner…
Sule Arnautovic’s new profile image on the Hall Chadwick website. After saying last last month that he was staying on at Jirsch Sutherland until March 31 next year former managing partner Sule Arnautovic has signed on as a partner at arch rival Hall Chadwick. Jirsch Sutherland managing partner Bradd Morelli told iNO that Arnautovic finished up at Jirsch last Tuesday and said he wished him…
Jones Partners’ Bruce Gleeson. Highly regarded Jones Partners’ principal Bruce Gleeson has dodged a bullet after NSW Supreme Court judge Ashley Black this week chose not to initiate an inquiry into his conduct as liquidator of Military History Tours Australia Pty Ltd (MHT), a company which offered travel to sites like Gallipoli until relations with Swiss-based cruise ship operator MSC Cruises SA soured in 2014….
Jones Partners’ Alan Topp. Jones Partners’ Bruce Gleeson. We wouldn’t want iNO readers to think this is the Jones Partners edition. It’s just a coincidence. Anyways, Jones Partners’ Alan Topp and Bruce Gleeson have had some luck after mistakenly paying themselves unapproved remuneration with a judge agreeing to retrospectively approve the unauthorised fees. The details in respect of this uncommon demonstration of leniency are contained…
Departing Deloitte partner Vaughan Strawbridge. McGrathNicol’s Jason Preston. In recent weeks the gossisphere has been thrumming with speculation about why Deloitte heavy hitter Vaughan Strawbridge is, as the AFR’s Street Talk squad recently revealed, taking his bat and ball to FTI Consulting. Some among iNO’s sources suggested that Strawbridge had crossed swords with John Greig, the managing partner of Deloitte’s Queensland practice. Greig it should…
Jirsch Sutherland’s new recruit, Paul Pattison. Jirsch Sutherland may have lost a veteran partner with the departure next March of Sule Arnautovic but it’s recently gained a national business development manager, and if the firm wanted someone who can relate to business owners going through the wringer then who better than ex-liquidator and ex-trustee in bankruptcy Paul Pattison? About a decade ago, Victoria-based Pattison went…
CJG Advisory’s Mathew Gollant. Melbourne-based IP Mathew Gollant must possess a fair appetite for excitement given his acceptance of an appointment as liquidator by creditors voluntary liquidation (CVL) of ACN 081 014 208 Pty Ltd, which until September 30, 2020 went by the name Millennium Electronics Pty Ltd (Millennium). iNO’s arrived at this conclusion after reading the judgment of South Australian Supreme Court judge Mark…
O’Brien Palmer’s Chris Palmer. There are times when one is compelled to ask what motivates a liquidator to pursue an 11th hour payment to a creditor when the sought after sum, once costs are deducted, amounts to sixth fifths of bugger all? For iNO such a time came on Tuesday as we read the judgement of Justice Fabian Gleeson In the matter of Skypac Aviation…