Riches to rags: A family made homeless from a credit card debt – Sydney Morning Herald

Video will begin in 5 seconds. More video Recommended Replay video Evicted with nowhere to go Watch Buket Ozdil film herself being forcibly evicted from her suburban Melbourne home. PT1M14S 620 349 Aaron Szepesvary and Buket Ozdil were forcibly evicted from their suburban Melbourne home on Tuesday, the lock drilled, the door smashed open, over…

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Abengoa Reports $1.3 Billion Loss Amid Fight Against Insolvency – Bloomberg

Abengoa SA, the Spanish renewable-energy company scrambling to avoid bankruptcy, reported a 1.2 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) loss for 2015 after its business was revalued amid a financial restructuring process. The Seville-based company shifted to a loss after posting net income of 125.3 million euros the previous year, according to a regulatory filing Monday. The loss…

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Consultant calls high insolvency rates ‘a troubling trend’ – CBC.ca

A St. John’s financial consultant who helps people cope with unmanageable debt says a spike in the number of personal insolvencies in oil-producing provinces is a sign of the times.  “We’re talking about almost 2,000 filings a year and, for a small province such as Newfoundland, [that’s] a pretty big number. It’s not insignificant,” said Sean Stack,…

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John Marshall Law School Bankruptcy Professor Jason Kilborn Invited to Join International Insolvency Institute – GlobeNewswire (press release)

CHICAGO, Feb. 29, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Professor Jason Kilborn from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago has been asked to join the prestigious International Insolvency Institute, an invitation-only organization of leading bankruptcy and restructuring professionals. Over the past decade, Kilborn has focused his academic research on a comparison of bankruptcy and insolvency in…

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Aaron & Partners has strengthened dispute resolution and insolvency team – Manchester Evening News

Regional law firm Aaron & Partners has strengthened its dispute resolution and insolvency team further with the appointment of insolvency expert Mark Davies as a partner in its Chester office. Mark, who has spent most of the last 20 years working for Manchester based firms, has over 26 years experience of servicing a national client…

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Battle-worn Toshiba mulls sale of medical business amid rising restructuring costs – FierceMedicalDevices (press release) (registration)

Toshiba’s Tokyo headquarters–Courtesy of Toshiba Long-beleaguered Toshiba is planning on selling its entire medical equipment unit as it grapples with rising restructuring costs. The move comes as the Japanese company attempts to recover from an accounting scandal that has taken a hefty toll on business. Toshiba had previously said it would sell at least 51%…

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