Rethinking Insolvency Law
Michael Murray and I recently presented at a roundtable discussion for the Australian Academy of Law and the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law at Sydney Law […]
Insolvency practitioner charge out rates-the cost of carrying the State
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 […]
Comparing the start of Parts 5.3A and 5.3B
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 […]
Talking Insolvency podcast: episode 3
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 […]
A critique of recent insolvency reforms
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. […]
Podcast: Talking Insolvency Ep 2
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 […]
Early guidance on safe harbour: zombie companies need not apply
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 […]
Challenging IP discretionary decisions
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 […]
Talking Insolvency
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 […]
Reform of UK schemes
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. […]
