Markets Live: Banks power ASX gains – The Sydney Morning Herald

Meanwhile, eChoice, an award-winning mortgage aggregator with more than 400 brokers, could be sold to a ‘major financial institution’ after being placed into voluntary liquidation because of unsustainable debt. Tony Wales, a director of eChoice and Welas, a private investment company, which is a secured creditor of eChoice, called in liquidators’ Rodgers Reidy after deciding…

‘Kept in the dark’: Highway subcontractors fight for wages – Northern Star

PACIFIC Highway subcontractors are preparing to ramp up their fight for months of unpaid wages from one of the project’s primary contractors, which went into voluntary administration earlier this year. About 200 highway workers who completed the Glenugie to Tyndale section of the Pacific Highway upgrade have been left without months of pay after Darling-Downs…

Former NRF partner to finally join boutique he co-founded – Australasian Lawyer

Assured Legal Solutions is set to formally welcome its co-founder, Chris Cruikshank, from Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) on Friday. The appointment will bring the specialist boutique firms lawyer headcount to six. Cruikshank resigned from the NRF partnership in Australia in September and was just serving his notice period. He joins former NRF special counsel Nicola…

Peekay Bankruptcy Liquidation Plan Effective – Bankrupt Company News (press release) (blog)

(PRNewsfoto/Peekay Boutiques, Inc.) AdvertisementPeekay Boutiques Joint Plan of Liquidation became effective, and the Company emerged from Chapter 11 protection. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court confirmed the Plan on November 15, 2017. BankruptcyDatas detailed Plan Summary notes, The Plan provides for the liquidation and sale of substantially all of the Debtors Assets to the Buyer, subject in…

One Nation Senator Georgiou speaks up on banking Royal Commission – Queensland Country Life

ONE Nation WA Senator Peter Georgiou has continued to try to pressure the federal Coalition government into holding a Royal Commission into the banking sector to examine issues concerning the farm sector. Senator Georgiou ventilated his concerns about the treatment of farmers during foreclosure proceedings in Senate question time today. His attack came as Nationals…