David Ianuzzi is not going to forget his first time as lead receiver anytime soon. In just a few hours in the witness box on Monday the Veritas Advisory principal was forced to admit his treatment of certain debts in the 2014 receivership of Mentmore Pty Ltd had been flawed, that his initial 524 report needed correcting and that the only reason he hadn’t already…
As Australia’s population ages and the costs of modernity multiply, insolvency practitioners will find themselves dealing more frequently with clients unfit to exercise their responsibilities and obligations. This story is not about them. This story is about a bankrupt whose attempts to be exempted from a public examination on the grounds that it would exacerbate her mental illness have come to naught in the Federal…
John Lindholm is not a name one associates with controversy. A few years short of Ferrier Hodgson’s compulsory retirement age, the Melbourne office’s straight-talking chief has a sound record. But circumstance thrusts contention upon unlikely bearers and Lindholm is currently dallying with unwelcome publicity thanks to his role as administrator of failed vocational education group Australian Careers Network (ACN) Group; his trading of Showgirls Bar…
If any insolvency practitioner remains uncertain as to the intentions of the Department of Employment’s (DoE) Active Creditor Unit (ACU), contemplate the plight of dVT Group’s Riad Tayeh, whose role as receiver of Delnote Constructions has recently been the subject of public examinations in the NSW Supreme Court. Tayeh and dVT colleague David Solomons were appointed receivers of the commercial concreter in November 2014. The appointor was Hermes…