Image copyright Reuters For 10 years, the Carillion pension trustees tried to get the company to pay in more money to the scheme without success. There was no agreement from 2008 onwards between the company and the trustees about the correct level of contribution over that decade and according to Robin Ellison, the chair of…
Jim Pickard and Josephine Cumbo January 30, 2018 The head of Britains accountancy watchdog has been grilled about its failure to spot growing problems at Carillion, the collapsed construction company. Appearing before MPs at the start of an investigation into Carillions demise, Stephen Haddrill, chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council, rejected accusations that the…
Dealing with phoenix companies Published: 30 January, 2018 Sarah Carlton examines the business practice of launching a phoenix company after insolvency. Its a sad fact of life that businesses can and do fail. Sometimes the failure is deliberate, but often there is nothing sinister the company may have been wounded fatally by a lost contract,…
MUMBAI: The refinancing of bankrupt companies under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code would probably be the biggest opportunity for refinancing of loans of up to Rs 2 lakh crore this year. A few strong banks could scoop up the opportunity even as the state-run banks hold back and clean up their bad loans. Furthermore, the…
MUMBAI:The government may consider resolving two of the biggest tax roadblocks looming over a successful conclusion of the insolvency process in the upcoming Budget, two people close to the development said. The government may allow carrying forward of losses for eight years for buyers of companies in the insolvency process. This is not allowed under…
Stuart Layt | AAP Monday, 29 January 2018 10:05AM Convicted conman Peter Foster has been declared bankrupt by the Federal Court (file). Serial conman Peter Foster has been declared bankrupt by the Federal Court after refusing to pay court costs relating to his scam weight loss company. Foster was ordered to pay the Australian Competition…
The Inner House of the Court of Session ordered that the £550,000 off-market sale of the property, which had previously been valued at £1,200,000 on the open market, be cancelled following a challenge by the liquidators of the haulage company. In doing so, it overturned an earlier decision by a commercial judge, who had ruled…
Claims worth Rs 3.13 trillion, related to 11 defaulting companies notified by the Reserve Bank, are under insolvency proceedings, the pre-budget Economic Survey said today. The Economic Survey 2017-18, tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament, further said that of the 11 companies under the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP), most are…
Claims worth Rs 3.13 lakh crore, related to 11 defaulting companies notified by the Reserve Bank, are under insolvency proceedings, the prebudget Economic Survey said today. The Economic Survey 201718, tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament, further said that of the 11 companies under the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP), most are either…
Claims worth Rs 3.13 lakh crore, related to 11 defaulting companies notified by the Reserve Bank, are under insolvency proceedings, the pre-budget Economic Survey said today. The Economic Survey 2017-18, tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament, further said that of the 11 companies under the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP), most are either…