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Bankruptcy, Deals & Departures, Judgment, Liquidations, Liquidators, Litigation, Social/Professional 24 February 2021

dVT founders cop whopper Timbercorp debt

dVT Group co-founder Anton De Vries dVT’s Riad Tayeh iNO hears that Riad Tayeh has for some time been planning to let his liquidator’s registration lapse ahead of a general easing into the next phase of his lengthy career but a recent judgment of the Supreme Court of Victoria might see the amiable dVT Group co-founder forced to take a more decisive path, one possibly…

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Fees, Judgment, Liquidations, Liquidators, Regulation/Legislation, Uncategorised 18 November 2020

The risks of tapping proceeds of crime for fees

O’Brien Palmer’s Daniel Frisken. Never presume to position yourself between the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police and an allegedly ill-gotten dollar. As O’Brien Palmer’s Daniel Frisken has discovered, and as is detailed in the matter of The Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police v Pharmacy Depot Hurstville Pty Ltd (in liq) (No 2) [2020] NSWSC 1571 the outcome is unlikely to prove favourable to…