Profile Articles Activity Dr John Wood obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of Leeds. His LLM allowed him to specialise in corporate and commercial based subjects, specifically corporate insolvency law. His PhD, completed in 2013 was entitled: corporate rescue: a critical analysis of its fundamentals and existences. He has been…
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India may have plans to revive the debt-laden sector through the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, but lawyers and bankers say the platform could be misused by promoters of companies to stall other recovery procedures against them, like under the dreaded Sarfaesi Act. Under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets…
Australian technology and media company Tapit Media, which aimed to complete the connection between digital content providers, brands and consumers through their mobile devices, has been placed into voluntary administration. Administrators are seeking a buyer for some or all of the assets of the business or a saviour to recapitalise. Tapit was launched in 2011…
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As the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) reportedly embarks on an investigation of failed local music streaming start-up, Guvera, the collapse of the company has left a handful of tech players out of pocket by hundreds of thousands of dollars. The music streaming company was placed into liquidation on 28 April after a failed tilt…
As the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) reportedly embarks on an investigation of failed local music streaming start-up, Guvera, the collapse of the company has left a handful of tech players out of pocket by hundreds of thousands of dollars. The music streaming company was placed into liquidation on 28 April after a failed tilt…
A plastics recycling company has blamed South Australia’s soaring electricity prices for its closure, with the loss of 35 jobs. Plastic Granulating Services has gone into liquidation after its electricity bills soared from $80,000 a month to $180,000 a month over the past year and a half. Managing director Stephen Scherer says the price hikes…
South Australia’s sky-high electricity prices have forced an Adelaide plastics recycling business to shut its doors, costing 35 workers their jobs, its managing director says. Plastics Granulating Services (PGS), based in Kilburn in Adelaide’s inner-north, said it had seen its monthly power bills increase from $80,000 to $180,000 over the past 18 months. Managing…
Facts Background Supreme Court decision Facts A Spanish company developed a building in Valencia. In 2005 it sold one of the flats in the building to an individual. In 2009 the developer registered the deed of dissolution with the Companies Registry. After the company was dissolved, the individual found defects in the flat’s flooring. She…
The RBI has reportedly asked banks to make steep increases in the provisioning for bad loans that are referred to bankruptcy courts. This might appear tough: the banks will have to find something like an additional Rs50,000 crore this year and a like amount next year, at a time when they, for the most part,…