Romanis Cant’s Tony Cant. KPMG partner Robyn Duggan. If the dearth of appointments presently bedevilling liquidators required any illustration then an account of the competition for appointments to the Pages Events Group and how it ended in ProvLiqs is in order. Last Friday the NSW Supreme court made orders installing KPMG’s Robyn Duggan and Peter Gothard as provisional liquidators (ProvLiqs) of Pages Equipment Holdings Pty…
Katherine Barnet leaving the Supreme Court Photo: iNO Images Liquidator Kate Barnet has taken leave of absence from her role as a director of the board of the Australian Restructuring, Insolvency & Turnaround Association (ARITA) following her referral to a s40-45 disciplinary committee by ASIC. As was first reported last week in Insolvency News Online (iNO) Barnet and former Bentleys colleague Bill Fletcher were referred…
KPMG’s Peter Gothard. KPMG’s Robyn Duggan. The shareholders of the Pages events group may have been throttling each other through the courts for four strangulated years but as far as iNO is concerned things became interesting only this month. In less than three weeks an entity in the group has had administrators appointed, administrators replaced and if the Gods of case law so will it,…
AICM CEO Nick Pilavidis. Sources close to Government deliberations around how to cope with the tsunami of insolvencies anticipated once fiscal support ends have told iNO measures to restrain liquidators from pursuing preferences are under active consideration. “A lot of stakeholders are seeking to have unfair preferences suspended, the AICM for example,” a source said in response to iNO’s enquiries about options the government could…
Balance Insolvency principal Tim Cook. Criticisms of a 439A report produced by Balance Insolvency’s Tim Cook have been revealed in a judgment delivered this morning by Justice Ashley Black in the NSW Supreme Court. Cook’s report was issued on April 9, 2019 following his appointment as voluntary administrator (VA) of Citadel Financial Corporation. Citadel sought Cook’s consent to act after it lost a case in…
Worrells’ Dominic Cantone. Worrells’ Nick Cooper. Worrells’ duo Dominic Cantone and Nick Cooper could shortly be calling their professional indemnity insurer after a Federal Court judge on Monday proposed making orders requiring them to pay costs minus the usual right of indemnification. In Adelaide Brighton Cement Limited, in the matter of Concrete Supply Pty Ltd v Concrete Supply Pty Ltd (Subject to Deed of Company…
Hall Chadwick’s Richard Lawrence. Tauro Capital and Apollo League director Simon Ward. Hall Chadwick Melbourne partner Richard Lawrence will refrain from exercising his casting vote in the event there is a deadlock between creditors prepared to accept Tauro Capital director Simon Ward’s compromise offer and those who want his head. In a report issued to Tauro creditors this week Lawrence said that as a consequence…
Chifley Advisory’s Gavin Moss Chifley Advisory’s Gavin Moss is grappling with a bout of FOBBO (Fear of being booted out) after his appointor commenced proceedings to have him removed. Moss and former Chifley colleague Henry Kwok (now at Pathway Insolvency and Advisory) were appointed voluntary administrators (VAs) of FOGO Brazilia Franchise Holdings (FBFH) in early 2018 by director and Rebel Sports co-founder Ian Dresner. The…
Morton + Lee Insolvency’s Leon Lee. Hall Chadwick’s Ginette Muller. The knives were out from the start when Queensland liquidator Leon Lee accepted the appointment as voluntary administrator (VA) of Bulkbuild Pty Ltd but after the deed was done, the steel sheathed and the stains erased, some of his despatchers were possessed of a benevolent magnanimity. “They said he’s not a bad guy,” a source…
Tauro Capital director Simon Ward. Hall Chadwick’s Richard Lawrence. Creditors of Simon Ward’s failed start-up accelerator Tauro Capital have received a potential reprieve with liquidator Richard Lawrence advising that next Monday’s meeting to vote on Ward’s Spartan compromise would be adjourned. ” … additional information and documentation has been provided to my office since the Reports were issued to creditors and this information indicates potential…