The Emerge Yoga Festival is no more. Mere days before it was set to open its doors, the event, billed as Canada’s yoga festival, has gone bankrupt. A notice appeared on its website announcing it was cancelled and has declared itself insolvent as of Monday. On June 26, 2017, Emerge made an assignment into bankruptcy…
7Sport on June 27, 2017, 12:07 pm Novak Djokovic hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye with Boris Becker, but he’s put their differences aside in his former coach’s time of need. Former German tennis star Becker said he was “surprised and disappointed” after being declared bankrupt by a court in London on Wednesday for failing to pay…
A failed education company, that left more than 5000 students without the qualifications they paid for, engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct, unfair contract terms and unconscionable conduct, the Federal Court has found. Get Qualified Australia (GQA) was an education consultant that assisted job seekers in obtaining Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) qualifications in industries…
Pitcher Partners managing director Bryan Hughes has announced he will move on to chair the Perth-headquartered firm, with executive director Leon Mok to step into his role. From next week, Mr Hughes will become executive chairman of the accounting, audit and advisory firm. In a statement, he said Pitcher Partners restructuring and insolvency team had…
MUMBAI: State Bank of India has mandated bankruptcy specialist Alvarez & Marsal to act as interim resolution professional to reorganise Ruias-owned Essar Steel that defaulted on Rs 44,000 crore debt, said two people familiar with the development. The nation’s biggest lender has also hired Ernst & Young, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers to handle the insolvency proceedings…
The rules seemed clear. After anger at how EU taxpayers had to meet the cost of bank rescues during the financial crisis, any more failing lenders would have to be dealt with, as far as possible, by their own shareholders and creditors. But the 17bn of Italian government money committed at the weekend to deal…
With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asking banks to take defaulters through the insolvency process, the role of insolvency professionals has assumed importance and people are rushing to clear the qualifying examination. Sources said bankers last week met to decide on the appointment such professionals, considering the number of cases that…
As Ten Network struggles through a drawn out insolvency process, there are many industry experts talking about the value that would have been preserved if the company had been able to get legal protection from its creditors. It now appears certain that the mess at Ten will be exacerbated by the appointment of receivers by…
The new rules aim at facilitating debt recovery in cross-border insolvency proceedings. They will make it easier for businesses to restructure and for creditors to get their money back, by ensuring that collective procedures for cross-border debt recovery are effective and efficient. The Regulation focuses on resolving the conflicts of jurisdiction and laws in cross-border…
By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail Published: 10:57 +10:00, 26 June 2017 | Updated: 11:20 +10:00, 26 June 2017 e-mail 34 View comments Kevin Maxwell faces being declared bankrupt at the High Court in London for a second time, Sebastian Shakespeare reveals Kevin Maxwell was declared the biggest personal bankrupt in British history in 1992,…