KordaMentha’s Rahul Goyal. KordaMentha’s Jennifer Nettleton Rahul Goyal and Jennifer Nettleton have been granted liberty to make misery for rival Schon Condon as they ponder whether or not to pursue a special costs order against him. Being the special purpose liquidators (SPLs) of former precious metal refiner ACN 154 520 199 Pty Ltd, the KordaMentha pair recently applied for approval of almost $385,000 in fees…
IRT Advisory’s Andrew Poulter. Reviewing Liquidator Will Colwell KPMG’s Will Colwell has begun to comb through the administration of a Victorian company connected to controversial Victorian accountant Chris Baldwin after being appointed reviewing liquidator of PBDB Services Pty Ltd. Colwell, one of 15 members of ASIC’s Reviewing Liquidators’ panel, commenced scrutiny of the PBDB Services liquidation last month after being approached by ASIC in October…
Ralan Group boost: Grant Thornton’s Said Jahani. FTI Consulting’s Joanne Dunn. iNO had a stumble on Wednesday with some incomplete insolvency statistics but regrouped and today brings you the definitive breakdown for 1st half 2019/2020. Generously provided by Tony Sivaa of Sivaa Consulting, working with BTLawyers, the picture painted is familiar. Worrells is yet again front runner nationally with more than 450 appointments, including 314…
SV Partners’ Shumit Banerjee There’s nothing like a free plug from a judge and in this instance SV Partners is the beneficiary thanks to the Federal Court’s Jayne Jagot in Frisken, in the matter of Avant Garde Investments Pty Ltd v Cheema [2020] FCA 98. Justice Jagot was ruling on an application by Avant Garde Investments‘ receiver Daniel Frisken, who wanted the company wound up…
Tony McGrath. Jason Preston. If nothing else the last few months have shown that there’s still enough cash left in HIH to attract those adept at throttling a profit from a corporate corpse. This week iNO listened as lawyers for class action plaintiffs came before NSW Supreme Court judge Ashley Black to progress a new claim against HIH for misleading and deceptive conduct. The shareholder…
Hall Chadwick’s Steve Gladman. It has taken time but this week the NSW Supreme Court of Appeal delivered its verdict in respect of a contentious casting vote exercised by Hall Chadwick’s Steve Gladman at the second meeting of creditors of Glenfyne Farms, back on October 9, 2018. That vote, which for practical purposes defeated an attempt by Glenfyne’s major creditor to replace Gladman as liquidator,…
Deloitte’s Tim Norman. Plutus Payroll Australia (PPA) liquidators Deloitte’s Tim Norman and Sal Algeri seem to be inching closer to a point when they can apply the blowtorch to various individuals connected with this most notorious of tax-skimming scandals but given the assetless state of the entities to which they are appointed, getting there is costing a bomb. In the NSW Supreme court yesterday, lawyers…
PKF’s Brad Tonks. Imagine, if you are so predisposed, a day when the ASIC database communicates with itself. Information uploaded dissolves instantly into a cyber solution. There it’s compared with every relevant byte of meaning already saturating ASIC’s deep reservoir of data. At quantum computing speeds, the digital litmus satisfies itself, classifying the intel as compliant with the myriad rules and regulations that have been…
PKF’s Brad Tonks. The admission of a related party debt appears to have been sufficient for a court to agree to replace an incumbent liquidator with an applicant creditor’s preferred appointee. In the matter of Hawkesbury House Pty Limited (in liquidation) [2019] NSWSC 1673 NSW Supreme Court judge Ashley Black made orders replacing liquidator Adam Farnsworth with PKF’s Brad Tonks. This was on the application…
Bentleys’ Tracey Knight. Liquidator Jim Downey Craig Walton, a key figure in one of the most controversial corporate restructures of recent times, has declared bankruptcy a week before the commencement of a trial brought by liquidators chasing the 63 year old for a $1.65 million debt. A search of the National Personal Insolvency Index reveals Craig Hall Walton, unemployed of East Melbourne, declared himself bankrupt…