In making a winding up order against Forum Finance, Justice Michael Lee made this comment about the hourly fees of the proposed liquidators: “[24] … The prevailing rate for partners of […]
I recently searched ASIC’s insolvency notices website for notices of appointment for the new small business restructuring procedure in Part 5.3B of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). This revealed 8 […]
Here is the 3rd episode of the Talking Insolvency podcast, where we discuss priority creditors in insolvency with Professor Christopher Symes. We discuss the priority given to employee entitlements and […]
Here is a recording of the webinar that Michael Murray and I gave recently for ERA Legal where we discuss recent insolvency reforms, including safe harbour and small business restructuring. […]
The second episode of Talking Insolvency is now available. In this episode, John, David and I discuss the role of government in insolvency in Australia and the UK. I’ve set […]
The safe harbour against insolvent trading liability for directors has been in place since 19 September 2017.1 It was introduced to provide directors with an incentive to try to save their […]
I chaired an interesting webinar last night that features Dr John Wood from the UK and Karen Petch from New Chambers here in Sydney. We discussed the grounds upon which […]
With all of the law reform initiatives announced recently I’ve been giving a few seminars and webinars on different aspects of insolvency law. While I enjoy doing this (if you’d […]
This is a video of the webinar that I hosted in September for Sydney Law School with the team from Allen & Overy, discussing the new Pt 26A restructuring procedure. […]
Here is a video of my presentation on SME insolvency reform from a seminar that I gave at the Sydney office of Hunt & Hunt on 21 October 2020. I’d […]
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