Daniel Moore – BCR Advisory (Qld). Veteran trustee and liquidator Daniel Moore has been referred to a disciplinary committee in respect of allegations he breached his statutory and fiduciary duties. The Queensland-based insolvency practitioner was referred to a disciplinary committee by the Inspector-General in Bankruptcy under part 2, schedule 2 on March 10. Moore did not respond to requests for comment but a source with…
Macks Advisory’s Peter Macks. AFSA deputy ceo Gavin McCosker Adelaide resident and insolvency practitioner Peter Macks would no doubt have anticipated this week’s announcement by the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) advising that it had sent him to the naughty corner. It was less than a fortnight ago that a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia suspended Macks’ registration as a liquidator for…
dVT Group founder Anton De Vries dVT’s Riad Tayeh A recent judgment of the Supreme Court of Victoria might see amiable dVT Group partner Riad Tayeh forced to take decisive action, which could ultimately include declaring bankruptcy. The reasons for such a potential and at this stage hypothetical course lie in the findings of Victorian Supreme Court Judge Peter Riordan, who on February 5 ruled…
AFSA deputy ceo Gavin McCosker Australia’s trustees in bankruptcy are about to learn the detail of a proposal that would see up to 20 per cent of all files AFSA and the Official Trustee farm out to private trustees reserved for the 10 per cent who are female. iNO’s spies divulged this week that the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) is preparing to seek feedback…
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…
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…
SV Partners managing director Terry van der Velde. SV Partners boss Terry van der Velde would’ve known it was coming but it seems a costs order of $298,898.49 is a sum even a successful mid-tier insolvency chieftain can’t effortlessly cajole from one’s indemnity insurer. van der Velde’s vicissitudes were made manifest on August 12 by Federal Court Registrar Tom Morgan, who determined that a previous…
Louise Thomson – Bankruptcy trustee’s registration cancelled. The registration of NSW-based bankruptcy trustee Louise Thomson has been cancelled on the recommendation of a committee convened to investigate allegations of conflict of interest. In a statement issued yesterday AFSA said that in 2019 its staff had “investigated instances of misconduct that called into question Thomson’s independence, judgement and general suitability to remain registered as a trustee.”…
SV Partners managing director Terry van der Velde. Where would the legal profession be without property development and the limitless labyrinth of opportunity for dispute that bricks and mortar afford? That’s the question that comes to mind on reading the judgement of Federal Court judge Kathleen Farrell in Campbell v van der Velde as trustee of the bankrupt estate of Marilyn Anne Rowan, in the matter…
Pitcher Partners’ Andrew Yeo. Pitcher Partners’ Gess Rambaldi. Water rights, unending ATO audits and internet scams – Pitchers Partners duo Andrew Yeo and Gess Rambaldi have had quite a time of it in respect of the bankruptcy of Victorian dairy farmer Peter Alan Sandles, and that’s without being heavied by the Inspector General in Bankruptcy. The intriguing tale comes to us via Federal Circuit Court…