PwC’s Sam Marsden and Derrick Vickers look to have wangled a result from the West Australian Supreme Court in their fight with receivers over a deed fund surplus on the Pluton Resources job. In November last year the pair – in their capacity as Pluton’s liquidators – applied for orders relating to the question of Pluton’s entitlement to $835,021.94, left in a deed fund following…
The recently asserted primacy of State laws over the insolvency statutes is to be tested in two appeals backed by the bullish litigators running the Department of Employment’s FEG recovery Unit. In the case of failed coal-to-liquids aspirant Linc Energy, liquidators Stephen Longley, Grant Sparks and Martin Ford two weeks ago filed notice of their intent to appeal the judgment of Queensland Supreme Court Justice David J…
There cannot be too many prominent rulings on insolvency practitioner remuneration that are not invoked at some point In the matter of Banksia Securities Ltd (in liq) (receivers and managers appointed) [2017] NSWSC 540. In approving claims for pay lodged by Banksia’s special purpose receivers (SPRs) – who are also its liquidators – NSW Supreme Court judge Fabian Gleeson has gone a good way to emptying…
Derek Minus may well be a dispute resolution specialist of the highest order but that does not seem to have helped him resolve his dispute with BPS Recovery’s David Sampson. The pair have been at loggerheads over the sale of Minus’s barrister’s chambers in Castlereagh Street since Sampson was given authority to sell the property in his capacity as court-appointed receiver late last year. In…
Pending any appeal from Tasmanian millionaire Jan Cameron, KordaMentha partners Rahul Goyal and David Winterbottom have won the right to a $2 million success fee which formed part of the remuneration they agreed to with Cameron when she appointed the receivers of DSG Holdings. In Bicheno Investments Pty Ltd v David John Winterbottom [2017] NSWSC 536 (9 May 2017) Justice Robert McDougall yesterday dismissed Cameron’s application for…
KordaMentha pair Rahul Goyal and David Winterbottom were present and accounted for in the NSW Supreme Court yesterday as the hearing of Jan Cameron’s bid to deprive the pair of a $2 million success fee entered its second and final day. The Kordas pair and Cameron fell out at some point after she appointed them receivers of DSG Holdings back in 2014. They’d picked up…
The man doing all he can to eliminate complacency around circulating assets and the uses to which they can rightly be put was in Sydney this week, presenting to those most at risk of transgressing his rejuvenated enforcement regime. On Tuesday FEG recovery czar Henry Carr was at the boardroom of John Morgan’s BCR Advisory on Spring Street. It was lunchtime and Carr, who is spearheading the Department of…
This case pitting Tasmanian businesswoman Jan Cameron against KordaMentha’s David Winterbottom and Rahul Goyal might hold some lessons for other insolvency practitioners taking appointments from unconventional creditors. One lesson might be that when promising one’s appointor to undertake a stock take, count the stock! The other might be that when contemplating an appointment from a secured creditor that’s not a bank or similar, additional due diligence pays….
In what might prove to be valuable guidance for other insolvency practitioners who’ve fallen foul of the Department of Employment’s (DoE) FEG recovery unit, dVT Group’s Riad Tayeh and David Solomons are about to settle their dispute and SiN has it on good authority that a deal is imminent and could be confirmed as soon as next week. Proceedings were initiated against the pair on October 31,…
Well this is different. FEG missing out on a slice of pie. It happened after receivers applied for a ruling to determine whether funds generated from a trading trust should be carved up for creditors. In the decision of Amerind Pty Ltd (receivers and managers apptd) (in liq) [2017] VSC 127 (23 March 2017), handed down in the Supreme Court of Victoria last Thursday, the…