And experts warned that these difficulties come as care homes still struggle with debts from before the credit crunch. As a result, 101 care homes were declared insolvent in 2018. Analysts from the accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP, which conducted the research, warned that the sector is continuing to suffer from trading difficulties…
The Australian arm of Build-A-Bear Workshops has been placed into voluntary administration with ten locations around Australia to close almost immediately. The much-loved venue gives kids the chance to customise their own toy, and are often used for childrens parties. The company has 30 stores and other retail outlets around Australia but ten of those…
New York, yes, Paris, maybe, but you wouldnt think the tiny Welsh town of Blaenau Ffestiniog likely to be the centre of a million-pound art investment fraud. In fact the Insolvency Service, a government agency connected to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, has wound up two fraudulent art investment schemes, one in…
In this guest post Peter Doyle, a former senior IMF economist, argues for the sovereign insolvency regime to be brought in line with that for banks, starting with Venezuela. Motivation The prior instalment of this sovereign insolvency blog trilogy concluded that “output foregone” is huge in highly-indebted IMF programme countries with high growth potential. That…
This type of business fraud costs the Australian economy somewhere between $2.85 and $5.13 billion every year. (1) In 2017 alone, there were more than 20,000 phoenix operators in Australia. On average, each phoenix business leaves 44 other businesses in debt. And, phoenix activity jeopardises up to 67,000 employees per year. Domenic Calabretta, managing director,…
KPMG, the smallest of the Big Four audit and consulting firms, has struck a long-awaited expansion deal by buying one of Australias best-known corporate insolvency firms, Ferrier Hodgson. The combination will create one of the countrys biggest restructuring, insolvency and forensic advisory practices, with 27 partners and more than 200 staff. The acquisition, announced today,…
The Australian arm of customisable toy retailer Build-a-Bear Workshop has been placed into voluntary administration, hours after its listed parent company in the US reported a 7.5% drop in revenue and sluggish growth in international markets, partially blamed on the collapse of Toys R Us and issues posed by Brexit. Matt Sweeny and Gideon Rathner…
The merged business will be co-led by KPMGs National Head of Restructuring Services, Matthew Woods, and Ferrier Hodgson Practice Leader, James Stewart, with 27 partners and more than 200 specialists across Australia. Under the terms of the deal, KPMG Australia will acquire Ferrier Hodgsons business located in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, with discussions with…