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Podcast: Talking Insolvency Ep 2

January 23, 2021by Jason Harris Leave a comment

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 […]

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Bankruptcy, Law reform, Liquidation

Early guidance on safe harbour: zombie companies need not apply

November 20, 2020by Jason Harris 1 Comment

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 […]

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Law reform, Restructuring, SME

Challenging IP discretionary decisions

November 13, 2020by Jason Harris Leave a comment

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 […]

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Audio, Foreign insolvency

Talking Insolvency

November 4, 2020by Jason Harris 1 Comment

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 […]

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Audio, Law reform, Restructuring, SME

Reform of UK schemes

October 30, 2020by Jason Harris Leave a comment

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. […]

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Foreign insolvency, Restructuring, Schemes of arrangement

SME insolvency reform video

October 28, 2020by Jason Harris 2 Comments

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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Law reform, Restructuring, SME

Submission to Treasury Consultation on SME Restructuring

October 13, 2020by Jason Harris 3 Comments

Here is a copy of my submission in response to the Treasury ‘Insolvency Reforms to support small business’ that I submitted yesterday.

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Law reform, Restructuring, SME

A new system for SME restructuring: is there a business doctor in the house?

October 9, 2020by Jason Harris 5 Comments

The details of the Federal Government’s proposed new restructuring regime for small businesses were announced this week with the release of the draft Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Bill 2020 […]

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Law reform, Restructuring

Fightback! SMEs get a new restructuring tool

September 28, 2020by Jason Harris 1 Comment

The federal Treasurer has announced a new restructuring regime for struggling small to medium enterprises (SMEs)[1] which adopts a ‘debtor-in-possession’ model for companies owing less than $1 million.

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Law reform, Restructuring

Zoom webinars on insolvency

August 10, 2020by Jason Harris 2 Comments

Here are some links to recordings of insolvency-related webinars that I’ve been running recently for the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School. You can find a range of podcasts […]

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Audio, Foreign insolvency, Law reform, Restructuring

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