A biodiesel plant listed on the Australian Securities Exchange says the federal government is partly to blame for it collapsing into voluntary administration. Australian Renewable Fuels Limited, based in Barnawartha in north-east Victoria, appointed voluntary administrators on Thursday. Melissa Humann, David McEvoy and Nicholas Martin from PPB advisory are now managing the companys assets. A…
THE magnitude of yesterday’s revelations of a Coast company director holidaying in Las Vegas days after his company entered liquidation was quickly apparent. After the Daily revealed prominent Mooloolaba restaurateur Todd Young’s company, Todd Young Investments Pty Ltd, which through a trust operated Bella Venezia at Mooloolaba, had gone into liquidation and days later he’d…
Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan presents himself as a bipartisan, pragmatic accountant. His self-proclaimed nickname is One Tough Nerd. He has no trouble upsetting Democrats and Republicans on the same day. Related: Flint water crisis: emails reveal governor Snyder informed of problems a year ago He talks about Michigan residents as his customers and tries…
New Delhi: Officials from the ministries of finance and corporate affairs on Wednesday briefed a parliamentary panel on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2015, which seeks to provide an easy exit option for insolvent and sick firms. The briefing was given to the 30-member Joint Committee on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2015. The panel…
Chapman Tripp Australia has an Insolvency Law Reform Bill in Parliament and plans for more change further down the track in the form of recommendations from the Australian Productivity Commission, which the Australian Government has signalled it will adopt. These developments will be of interest to New Zealand insolvency practitioners, company directors and creditors. We…
UPDATE 12.30pm: A NUMBER of the Daily’s readers have taken to our Facebook page to vent their frustration after yet more workers have suffered with a prominent local restaurateur’s company going into liquidation. The Daily broke the news this morning of the demise of Todd Young Investments Pty Ltd, directed by Todd Young, who operated…
Stonewood Homes managing director and found Brent Mettrick says the closure of franchises in Marlborough and Hamilton is not indicative of a wider endemic. Stonewood Homes Marlborough has gone into liquidation, with debts of more than $1 million. The franchise of nationwide construction company Stonewood Homes went into liquidation last year, appointing Biz Rescue chartered…
Continuing its effort to facilitate investment and economic growth, amid opposition protests in Parliament, the Narendra Modi-led government on Monday introduced a bill to put in place an effective legal framework for time-bound resolution of corporate insolvency. Finance minister Arun Jaitley introduced the much-awaited Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code in Lok Sabha that will speed up…
Officials from the ministries of finance and corporate affairs today briefed a Parliamentary panel on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2015, which seeks to provide an easy exit option for insolvent and sick firms. The briefing was given to the 30-member Joint Committee on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2015. The panel is…
Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew will meet with Puerto Rican officials on Wednesday to address the island’s mounting debt crisis. Puerto Rico has defaulted twice on its payments and it suffers with a high public debt of $72 billion, and the secretary hopes that the U.S. Congress will act by March of this year.…