Retail trade accounted for 238 voluntary administration appointments between 2021 and 2025, according to a new report from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), with total liabilities of $3.66 billion and median liabilities of $2.10 million per appointment.
The figures are contained in ASIC’s Report 836, which reviews voluntary administration and deed of company arrangement (DOCA) data between 2021 and 2025. The report analysed 3,528 grouped voluntary administration (VA) appointments covering 5,020 companies nationally, and is the regulator’s first detailed public breakdown of how the VA and deed of company arrangement (DOCA) process plays out in practice.
ASIC’s report does not break the DOCA-versus-liquidation…