dVT’s Riad Tayeh dVT Group’s Riad Tayeh has plenty on his plate in this, the second year of the 21st century’s first pandemic. For starters the mid-tier firm’s co-founder may have to facing potentially ruinous recovery action courtesy of Timbercorp liquidators Craig Shepard and Mark Korda after the KordaMentha duo extracted a favourable decision from Victorian Supreme Court last month. As a consequence, Tayeh and…
Cor Cordis Melbourne partner Bruno Secatore. The week wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t revisit briefly the ongoing slugfest between Cor Cordis Melbourne boss Bruno Secatore and Deloitte as the former delves into the latter’s lengthy involvement with the Bob Jane tyre empire. As liquidator of Bob Jane Group entity Last Lap Pty Ltd Secatore has succeeded in having summonses for public examination issued to…
Cor Cordis Melbourne partner Bruno Secatore. Deloitte Restructuring Consultant Simon Wallace-Smith. Eventful on multiple levels best describes yesterday’s public examination (PE) of former Deloitte partner and now consultant Simon Wallace-Smith, who was being questioned about his former tenure as liquidator of Last Lap Pty Ltd by counsel for the current incumbent. To start with, there were problems with all the parties being on the same…
Michael Billingsley has left Deloitte and joined Cor Cordis. Whilst we wouldn’t want readers to think today’s edition is all about Deloitte and Cor Cordis iNO couldn’t resist the opportunity to indulge in some “you heard it here first” triumphalism. The occasion which gives us cause to crow is the confirmation by liquidator Michael Billingsley that he has joined what seems something of an exodus…
Worrells partner Jason Bettles. Editor’s Note: On Friday, August 18, 2023 Justice Brigitte Markovic of the Federal Court of Australia dismissed ASIC’s case against liquidator Jason Bettles and ordered the regulator to pay Bettles’ costs. The corporate regulator has returned to the fray in its ongoing campaign to rub out Jason Bettles, calling for the Worrells partner to be stripped of his liquidator’s ticket and…
Macks Advisory’s Peter Macks. AFSA deputy ceo Gavin McCosker Adelaide resident and insolvency practitioner Peter Macks would no doubt have anticipated this week’s announcement by the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) advising that it had sent him to the naughty corner. It was less than a fortnight ago that a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia suspended Macks’ registration as a liquidator for…
dVT Group founder Anton De Vries dVT’s Riad Tayeh A recent judgment of the Supreme Court of Victoria might see amiable dVT Group partner Riad Tayeh forced to take decisive action, which could ultimately include declaring bankruptcy. The reasons for such a potential and at this stage hypothetical course lie in the findings of Victorian Supreme Court Judge Peter Riordan, who on February 5 ruled…
O’Brien Palmer’s Chris Palmer. There’s nothing like being in business with your referrer to get an appointee offside with someone and at least some of those connected to ICON Construction (NSW) Pty Ltd (ICON) were recently in a flap about Chris Palmer. Following the granting of consent orders in the NSW Supreme Court the O’Brien Palmer principal and colleague Liam Bailey replaced ICON administrator Ben…
Macks Advisory’s Peter Macks. A judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia has ordered that the registration of liquidator Peter Ivan Macks be suspended for three years after finding that he had fabricated documents in a failed bid to divert scrutiny of his conduct by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The finding of dishonesty by Justice Sam Doyle handed down last Friday…
Hall Chadwick’s new head of Personal Insolvency John Shanahan. Thinning liquidator ranks lose another: Kristen Beadle. As iNO reported elsewhere today, Melbourne-based Kristen Beadle has left Hall Chadwick and the insolvency profession to take up a role as manager public practice and SME with CPA Australia. iNO understands Beadle also intends to let lapse her registrations as a registered liquidator and trustee in bankruptcy. Hall…