Hall Chadwick’s Richard Lawrence. Hall Chadwick’s Richard Albarran. Hall Chadwick’s pair of Richards look set for a disagreeable time chasing upwards of three quarters of a million in fees after being ousted as voluntary administrators (VAs) of Bluechain Pty Ltd. Messrs Albarran and Lawrence were turfed out by an overwhelming majority of creditors at the reconvened first meeting of Bluechain back on May 18, 20…
Worrells partner Jason Bettles. Editor’s Note: On Friday, August 18, 2023 Justice Brigitte Markovic of the Federal Court of Australia dismissed ASIC’s case against liquidator Jason Bettles and ordered the regulator to pay Bettles’ costs. Worrells’ Jason Bettles has had another win in his ongoing fight with ASIC, which throws money at poorly articulated misconduct cases knowing the costs of setbacks are recoverable via Industry…
Worrells partner Jason Bettles. Editor’s Note: On Friday, August 18, 2023 Justice Brigitte Markovic of the Federal Court of Australia dismissed ASIC’s case against liquidator Jason Bettles and ordered the regulator to pay Bettles’ costs. The corporate regulator has returned to the fray in its ongoing campaign to rub out Jason Bettles, calling for the Worrells partner to be stripped of his liquidator’s ticket and…
Macks Advisory’s Peter Macks. A judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia has ordered that the registration of liquidator Peter Ivan Macks be suspended for three years after finding that he had fabricated documents in a failed bid to divert scrutiny of his conduct by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The finding of dishonesty by Justice Sam Doyle handed down last Friday…
Hall Chadwick’s new head of Personal Insolvency John Shanahan. Thinning liquidator ranks lose another: Kristen Beadle. As iNO reported elsewhere today, Melbourne-based Kristen Beadle has left Hall Chadwick and the insolvency profession to take up a role as manager public practice and SME with CPA Australia. iNO understands Beadle also intends to let lapse her registrations as a registered liquidator and trustee in bankruptcy. Hall…
No 1 for 1st half 2020/2021 – Hamilton Murphy’s Stephen Dixon. Sivaa Consulting’s analysis of ASIC’s latest insolvency statistics are out and the ravages wrought by measures imposed to combat COVID 19 are plain to see with registered liquidators reporting average declines of 50 per cent in formal appointments for the first half of FY 2020/2021 compared to the previous corresponding period. 1,614 CVLs were…
Trajan John Kukulovski. Well a three year suspension sounds preferable to cancellation of one’s registration as a liquidator so iNO reckons there was cause for celebrations aplenty over Christmas in the household of John Kukulovski. Kukuwhoski you ask? For readers unaware of the object of iNO’s interest, we refer you to the public announcement of this great nation’s corporate regulator on January 13, 2021. On…
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….
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…
Olvera Advisors’ Kate Barnet. Liquidator Bill Fletcher. Liquidators Kate Barnett and Bill Fletcher have been exonerated by a committee convened in July this year to consider contraventions ASIC alleged were perpetrated in the early days of the Octaviar liquidation. The allegations were brought to Barnett and Fletcher’s attention in show cause notices under section 40-40 of the Corporations Act issued by ASIC in 2019. After…