He might be banned from managing corporations and bankrupt to boot but Nathan Tinkler can still rely on his mate Gerry Harvey to agree to a round of golf, thanks in part perhaps to the efforts of Deloitte restructuring guru Neil Cussen. Cussen revealed yesterday that he and colleague David Mansfield had sold the last property holdings attaching to Tinkler’s former horse breeding and agistment business Patinack…
Who reads those ASIC Regulatory Guides about registration renewal anyhow, apart perhaps from ARITA’s technical gurus, sundry boffins of a regulatory bent and your yarn-starved correspondent? Certainly not every single registered liquidator and among them definitely not Worrells’ Nick Cooper and Nathan Deppeler, who on the last day of the financial year received a phone call from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) advising that…
A spat over an appointment has been laid bare in convenient detail after the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (DCoT) applied to the Federal Court to have ex-Vincents partner Peter Dinoris appointed liquidator of W.D. Hall Pty Ltd in place of incumbent voluntary administrator (VA), Paul Nogueira of Worrells. Freshly minted Federal Court judge Roger Derrington explained in Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, in the matter of W.D. Hall Pty Ltd v…
A trio of entrepreneurs is preparing to shake up the established model of distressed asset sales by launching Resolve, an online platform designed to effect transactions between insolvency practitioners and distressed asset investors on a secure digital exchange. The three Melbournians – Edward Scott, and brothers Simon and Andrew Plummer – see an opportunity to recreate the existing process by which practitioners with assets to sell…
Henry Kazar received a less than ideal send off to the financial year thanks to Justice John Griffiths, who on June 30 decided that the EY partner’s claim for $64,390.50 was coming it a trifle high given Kazar and his team laboured for years to engineer a land sale that raised all of fifty grand. Kazar applied to the Federal Court in April of this year to have…
If avoiding an acrimonious trial involving serious allegations of impropriety can be categorised as a good result then PPB Advisory’s Ian Carson and Craig Crosby have engineered such after the Supreme Court of Victoria endorsed a deed of settlement between the pair as Willmott Forests‘ liquidators and the company’s responsible entity, Primary Securities. In the recent judgment of Justice James Judd in Primary Securities Ltd v Willmott Forests…
Andrew Wily’s relinquishing of his liquidator’s ticket is generating some interesting fallout, with an application by one of Wily’s replacements leading to the publication of an eyebrow raising allegation about a litigation funder, courtesy of the judge before whom the application was made. In the matter of City Pacific Limited [2017] NSWSC 784 Justice Paul Brereton of the Supreme Court of NSW included in his judgment a tale that…
The liquidator regulator continues to use non-compliance as a means by which to cull under-performers and this week it was Raymond Anthony Sutcliffe offering up a mea culpa in the form of an enforceable undertaking (EU) that effectively benches the Melbournian for a minimum three years effective from June 28, 2017. According to the ASIC announcement the EU requires Sutcliffe to request that his registration be…
Searches of insolvent companies referred to in Pitcher Partners‘ report on the A & S Services Australia Group (ASSAG) have identified at least one insolvency practice whose principals are now assisting regulators probing a multi-million dollar tax evasion scheme allegedly masterminded by former bankrupt Philip Whiteman. Pitcher’s partner and report author Andrew Yeo, who interviewed various individuals connected to ASSAG, said in the report that ASSAG group…
Sydney liquidator Gregory Jay Parker may not be presently enamoured of the wisdom of Federal Court judge Michael Lee, at least as it applies to the practice of issuing a speculative demand. This week in The matter of Worldwide Property Services Pty Limited (In Liquidation ACN 066 573 671) the judge included some less than flattering comments about Parker’s optimistic April 13 ex-parte application for an extension of…