The founder of Liverpool property group Signature has been banned as a company director after investors lost more than £4.8 million through a linked company that distributed false and misleading marketing material. Businessman Lawrence Kenwright – once linked with a run for Mayor of Liverpool – has been the director of almost 100 companies, including…
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A controversial businessman behind the collapsed Signature Group of property companies has been given a director ban for the next five years. Lawrence Kenwright was the founder of almost 100 companies, which owned a number of hotels, including the football theme Shankly and Dixie Dean. He was also director of Signature Works Gold Limited, which…
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The Bucharest Court rejected on Tuesday the request by the Bucharest Transport Company (STB) to enter insolvency. The reason is procedural: the company did not submit all the documents required by law. General Mayor Ciprian Ciucu expressed surprise at the decision and stated that, according to the STB management, the file had been verified multiple…
Lawrence Kenwright has been banned from being a company director. Kenwright founded the Signature Group which operated a chain of hotels including ones affiliated with the families of Bill Shankly and Dixie Dean. But the Liverpool businessman was struck off after allowing one of his companies to mislead investors who suffered £4.8 million in losses.…