Mark Korda, Jarrod Villani and Jennifer Nettleton are due this morning to ask a Federal Court judge to determine if they were sufficiently independent when they accepted the appointment as voluntary administrators (VAs) of Ten Network Holdings and thirteen related entities on June 14, 2017. Sources told Sydney Insolvency News over the weekend that the three KordaMentha partners will make the application in the Federal Court in Melbourne…
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…
With Ten Group voluntary administrators (VAs) facing a cash crisis by week’s end, the interests in control of the free-to-air broadcaster’s future are expected to reach agreement imminently on a deal that will see a new loan facility extended to VA Mark Korda and PPB Advisory appointed as “partial” receivers. Sources close to the administration revealed yesterday that Ten would be required to make payments on…
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Anthony Elkerton and Ron Dean-Willcocks have run aground in their attempts to make redundant the head of South Head & District Synagogue (Sydney) with NSW Supreme Court Justice Paul Brereton ruling that the administrators’ termination of Rabbi Benzion Milecki’s employment amounted to wrongful dismissal. In the matter of South Head & District Synagogue (Sydney) (Administrators appointed) [2017] NSWSC 823 it’s revealed that the administrators gave the Rabbi notice…
Are Mark Korda, Jenny Nettleton and Jarrod Villani planning a game show? One with enough ratings oomph to haul the Ten Network Holdings out of its abyssal fiscal hole and propel it to the summit of profit? This was SiN’s initial inference on reading the Declaration of Independence Relevant Relationships & Indemnities (DIRRI) produced by the three KordaMentha partners, who were appointed voluntary administrators of Ten Network…
It looks like we have an imbroglio of Brobdingnagian dimensions in the matter of Bloomer Constructions, with a major creditor seeking to derail a deed of company arrangement (DoCA) being proposed by the failed building firm’s parent, the ASX-listed but suspended from quotation Onterran. The insolvency practitioners dealing with said imbroglio are Jirsch Sutherland’s Sule Arnautovic and Trent Devine who as Bloomer’s voluntary administrators (VAs) are recommending creditors…
The Federal Court has a delivered a wide ranging judgment on the disposal of trust assets by liquidators and receiver/managers that will have the Department of Employment’s FEG recovery unit abuzz as it prepares its appeal to the decision of Amerind Pty Ltd (receivers and managers apptd) (in liq) [2017] VSC 127 (23 March 2017). In Kite v Mooney, in the matter of Mooney’s Contractors Pty…
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…
SiN’s sometimes chastised for focussing only on bad news, though we all know that except in the most extraordinary of circumstances – the second coming perhaps – a good news event is no news. Unless it’s an event that overturns bad news. The issue of insolvency practitioner pay has in recent times been a topic that’s seen a major good news event – liquidator Cliff…