What do insolvency professionals think of Theresa Mays hard Brexit? By that I mean the accountants and lawyers who deal with troubled businesses, and try to restore them to health so they dont ultimately end up insolvent. The answer is: not much. Prior to Theresa Mays big Brexit speech, R3, a trade body that represents…
The contents of SAE’s Gloucester St premises will be sold by auction after the company went into liquidation. Photo / Duncan Brown A 32-year-old Napier company has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 10 jobs, missing out on a dramatic recovery in the Hawke’s Bay construction sector. John Managh & Associates’ first liquidators…
By Angus Berwick and Toby Sterling | MADRID/AMSTERDAM Spanish police arrested prominent Dutch corporate lawyer Peter Wakkie at Madrid airport on Monday in an investigation into the insolvency of Russian-Spanish telecom firm ZED+, a judicial source said. A spokesman for Wakkie, who is ZED+’s interim manager, said he could not immediately comment on the arrest…
The company entered voluntary liquidation on November 24. David Blenkarn and Gregory Palfrey, insolvency practitioners from accountancy firm Smith & Williamson, were appointed as joint liquidators for the winding up process. In a statement of affairs filing on Companies House, European debt purchaser Intrum Justitia is listed as a company creditor, to the value of…
At his call to bar in December 2015, Kenneth Ononeze Okwor bagged 10 awards, shattering the previous record set 2 months earlier. He received the Best Student of the Year given by 3 donors, Council of Education Star Prize, Prize for 1st Class Students, Corporate Law Practice Award given by 2 donors,Property Law Practice Award,…
A man has been jailed for stealing more than $100,000 from an agribusiness consultancy in order to fuel his gambling habit. Shane Lloyd Vincent Comiskey, 49, was ordered to serve nine months of a three-year sentence on Monday after pleading guilty in Brisbane District Court to four counts of fraud as a director. The court…
The downturn in world economies has placed business under severe pressure in the last few years. In South Africa, the knock-on effect has been felt, with several businesses going out of business, filing for liquidation and with many turning to the South African business rescue procedure as a possible lifeline. Chapter 6 of the Companies…
By: Rob McKay Date: 16.01.2017 Main aim initially is to return operations to business as usual after McAleese dramas Mark Rowsthorn has had an interesting few years Rivet MD Mark Rowsthorn will spend the next 120 days…
16 January 2017 Garth Corbitt, Maritimo CEO. Boat builder uses voluntary administration for pre-float housekeeping. The manufacturing arm of Queensland boat builder Maritimo went into and out of voluntary administration towards the end of last year, a move which the company says was part of an internal restructure in preparation for a future stock market…
THE COMPANY behind a claim over Rangers and the liquidated club plc’s £16 million cash pot is itself being wound up. Investment firm Worthington Group PLC was accused of stymying the process of reimbursing businesses that were owed money by the former Rangers company – which ranged from giants such as Coca-Cola to a picture framer in…