Next time you’re bemoaning the cost of ASIC searches spare a thought for Jamieson Louttit. The Sydney IP was appointed liquidator of Sydney TY International Consulting Pty Ltd on November 7, 2018 following an application by the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (DCoT) to wind up the company. As it turns out, the director of Sydney TY International Consulting is the director of a further 97 companies,…
It sure seemed odd. A barrister, acting for the Commissioner of Taxation (CoT), arguing in defence of a case mounted by receivers from Hall Chadwick seeking to recover monies from the Commissioner. The venue for this curious scene was the Federal Court in Queensland and in NSW simultaneously thanks to video link, where Justice Andrew Greenwood yesterday heard an interlocutory application brought by the CoT in…
The most recent Minutes of the meeting of the Queensland Nickel Committee of Inspection (COI) reveal that luring PPB Advisory co-founder Steve Parbery down to Barangaroo has already begun to paying dividends for Ferrier Hodgson. Since Michael Owen resigned as special purpose liquidator (SPL) of Queensland Nickel ahead of moving to PwC as part of the now concluded takeover (first revealed by INO in March…
There’s an intriguing little backstory to last week’s headline event that saw a judge deny Worrells partner Graeme Beattie the role of liquidator of Bux Global Pty Ltd. Beattie accepted the appointment on October 4 following a referral in September from Jirsch Sutherland partner Daniel Civil. What he didn’t know was that on the same day in the Federal Court in Perth, orders were made appointing Ferrier Hodgson’s…
Mackay Goodwin’s Domenic Calabretta has fought off a bid to replace him with Ferrier Hodgson partner Robyn Duggan but the Minutes of the September 24, 2018 meeting of creditors of Condura Pty Ltd suggest those backing Duggan aren’t giving up. Condura Pty Ltd appointed Calabretta via a members voluntary liquidation (MVL) on December 6, 2017, one day after the company lodged a declaration of solvency…
Liquidator Michael Caspaney may soon head to court to have a funding agreement with FEG ratified after creditors of Queensland construction firm Cullen Group Australia rejected the deal on the basis it would bankroll pursuit of sub-contractors who had received more than $4 million in preference payments. Readers of Insolvency News Online may recall that Caspaney was installed at the first meeting of creditors back…
John Sheahan and Ian Locke have obtained the imprimatur of the Federal Court for a deal which will see significant sums paid to the Australian Tax Office (ATO). The deal represents a partial settlement of the long running BCI Finances dispute, but in his judgment of September 28, 2018 Justice Richard White was at pains to remind the South-Australian-based practitioners that if this deal goes sour it’s…
Hall Chadwick’s aspirations to administer deeds of company arrangement (DoCAs) over the Majella group have been incinerated, with the creditors most critically burned by the property group’s implosion pairing up to vote down resolutions that would’ve seen a meeting adjourned so as to allow time for the issues impeding the DoCAs to be removed. Instead, Glenn Shannon, Richard Albarran and David Ingram must content themselves with…
Correction & Clarification Glenn Crisp has been mentioned a second time during public examinations being run by Pitcher Partners Andrew Yeo and Gess Rambaldi as they investigate a $100 million tax-avoidance and phoenix-facilitation racket allegedly masterminded by Melbourne man Phil Whiteman. For the record the Jirsch Sutherland Victoria managing partner is not accused of any wrongdoing and Crisp is one of approximately 100 registered liquidators Australia-wide who accepted…
The Commonwealth’s FEG Recovery Unit has won an important skirmish in its dispute with One Corporate Trust Services (OCTS), the appointors of McGrathNicol as receivers of Australian Road Express Pty Ltd (ARX) and Jolly’s Transport Services Pty Ltd. On Monday, the Federal Court published the September 17, 2018 decision of Justice Mark Moshinsky dismissing OCTS’ application to have FEG’s cross-claim in this complex game of PPSR fanagling struck out. The…