Korda Mentha and its legal advisors will need all their combined knowledge and skill when designing the framework for the flock of Deeds of Company Arrangement (DoCAs) needed to facilitate Arrium Mining and Materials’ eventual sale. Whilst secrecy around the pre-sale process is tighter than that shrouding the Australian submarine contract, SiN hears some details released to registered interests have found their way to a major masthead….
The new board of Condor Blanco Mines is leaving no stone unturned in its quest to recoup legal costs it incurred wresting control of the ASX-listed mineral explorer after it was placed into voluntary administration (VA) by its ex-directors. Not only is the board sparring in the NSW Supreme Court with Domenic Calabretta, whose July 4 appointment as VA of Condor the court last week ruled…
When Domenic Calabretta learned this week that he had never been validly appointed as voluntary administrator (VA) to the scandal-plagued Condor Blanco Mines, the focus was rightly fixed upon the Mackay Goodwin director, whose invalid appointment had taken place in circumstances which might generously be described as irregular. (Decide for yourself how irregular: Calabretta Victim Of The Curse Of Condor Blanco) With a few gigalitres under the…
Given the fates of the former directors and office holders of Condor Blanco Mines, it was probably inevitable that Domenic Calabretta would run into trouble following his appointment as voluntary administrator (VA) of the ASX-listed minerals explorer by its two now ex-directors on July 4, 2016, one day before a new board was set to take charge. Calabretta’s appointment was challenged at a hearing on…
You know a voluntary administration (VA) is progressing – hopefully in the direction intended – when the company secretary is no longer needed. At least that’s how Arrium’s VAs from Korda Mentha are spinning the departure of Mark Edler, with a spokesman confirming yesterday that there is: “No need to replace (the company secretary) at this stage of the process …. the sales campaign is…
Geoff Grainger and Brian Silvia are licking their wounds after fumbling an appointment that’s seen the BRI Ferrier pair ditched in favour of Sule Arnautovic and Andrew Spring from Jirsch Sutherland. The awkward detail is contained in the judgement of Federal Court Justice Jayne Jagot, who heard an application from Grainger and Silvia seeking an order to validate their appointment as voluntary administrators of A.C.N….
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…
HELL hath no fury like a banker denied the voluntary administrator (VA) of his choice, as Grant Thornton’s Paul Billingham discovered during his truncated tenure as VA of Arrium. As a result of accepting the appointment, SiN understands at least four receiverships were lopped from GT’s advisory division in a day. The axe was wielded by Westpac’s restructuring chief Gwyn Morgan, who wanted good mate Peter Andersen’s firm McGrathNicol…
IN the wake of FTI Consulting’s removal as managers of the Yabulu nickel refinery in Queensland yesterday, creditors now face the prospect of the operations once again being controlled solely by Clive Palmer’s nephew. Until last Sunday, James McDonald and Clive Mensink were the directors of Queensland Nickel Sales Pty Ltd (QNS), a company first registered in 1972. However McDonald’s removal was only made official on Tuesday, one day…
FTI Consulting might have first been contacted about a VA appointment to Queensland Nickel Pty Ltd (QN) on Sunday January 3 but according to reports in The Australian newspaper, rival firm Hall Chadwick had a team on the ground at QN’s Yabulu nickel refinery in Townsville the following day. The report, published on Thursday January 7, put Hall Chadwick’s Richard Albarran, Jovandeep Singh, Mathew Badcock, and Brent Kijurina at…