R3 responds to corporate and individual insolvency statistics for May 2020 – Business Up North

Eleanor Temple, chair of R3 in Yorkshire Eleanor Temple, chair of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 in Yorkshire and a barrister at Kings Chambers in Leeds, comments on Fridays publication of the Governments monthly corporate and individual insolvency statistics for May: Todays figures show corporate insolvency numbers declined between April and May of this…

These restaurant chains have declared bankruptcy due to the coronavirus – Restaurant Business Online

Photograph: Shutterstock The coronavirus pandemic and ensuing shutdown have had a massive impact on restaurants, with industry sales at one point cut in half compared tolast year. Some chains that had been struggling before the pandemic were unable to weather the storm. Seven chains have declared bankruptcy, though thesemay well be the tip of the…

Ian Ferrier reveals the ‘biggest crook’ of his insolvency career – The Australian Financial Review

He orders a Voyager Estate chardonnay and confesses to having once owned the Smithbrook winery in Pemberton, Western Australia, in partnership with his best friend, the late David Clarke, one of the founders of Macquarie Group. They later sold Smithbrook to Brian Croser. Ferrier, 79, is a former chairman of Australian Vintage, which owns McGuigan…