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Corporates, Directors, Judgment, Liquidations, Liquidators 17 April 2019

Rhodes & Beckett liquidators defend appointment

Worrells’ Nick Malanos. Nick Malanos and Adam Farnsworth have been forced to confirm their appointments as liquidators of two companies formed to operate the business of Rhodes & Beckett after the private equity group that bankrolled the ailing retailer out of administration in 2017 claimed those doing the appointing weren’t valid directors. NSW Supreme Court judge Kelly Reeves yesterday ruled that Malanos and Farnsworth, who…

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Costs, Judgment, Liquidations, Liquidators, Preferences, Voidable Transactions 15 March 2019

QLD liq stung by $150k in adverse costs

Vincents’ Nick Combis. Vincents partner Nick Combis has found himself on the wrong side of an adverse costs order after the creditor he was pursuing persuaded a judge that her preferences were protected. In Queensland Quarry Group Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) & Anor v Cosgrove [2019] QDC 26 Combis, in his capacity as liquidator of QQG, sought to retrieve more than $350,000 received by a…