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Corporates, Deals & Departures, INO Opinion, Social/Professional 20 July 2018

PPB partnership payment facility frozen

With the dissolving of the PPB Advisory (PPBA) partnership imminent, rumours are that draw downs on the PPBA partnership’s loan facility are suspended as management sets about repaying the firm’s working capital facilities to PPBA’s bank, ANZ ahead of the August 1 deadline for the completion of PwC’s acquisition approaches. Several sources who spoke to INO confirmed hearing that distributions to partners had been frozen. One…

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Corporates, Judgment, Liquidations, Liquidators, Litigation 23 May 2018

Pitchers’ Hughes proves stick admissable

A fresh judgment was produced by the Supreme Court of West Australia last week that constitutes a win for Pitcher Partners WA partner and Westgem Investments liquidator Bryan Hughes in his marathon dispute with secured creditor Commonwealth Bank over the date of Westgem’s insolvency. Specifically, the court was asked to decide whether a Quickbooks data file saved to a USB stick constituted “books and records” and was therefore admissible. Initially there’d been been no…