Restructuring partner leaves JWS – Lawyers Weekly
08 July 2016 Stefanie Garber View Comments A former partner from Johnson Winter & Slattery has been snapped up by a rival firm. Gerard Breen has moved on…
DLA Piper confirms Swedish merger – CDR News Magazine
DLA Piper takes its Nordic presence a step further by merging with Swedish law firm Grönberg Advokatbyrå, whose strengths lie in litigation, corporate, insolvency and compliance. Effective 1 October 2016, DLA Piper will merge with Stockholm-based indep… Read the full article at: http://www.cdr-news.com/categories/sweden/6525-dla-piper-goes-further-north-confirms-swedish-merger
US travel tips & advice: How Australian travellers can transit through US airports faster – Bendigo Advertiser
In the year ended 30 June 2015, 980,000 Australian residents visited the USA. I salute you one and all. Big, powerful, varied, exciting and entrancingly corpulent as the USA may be, if you plan to travel around the country by air, beware, the airports are like human zoos. How is it that a country with…
Berhampore’s Goose Shack forced into voluntary liquidation as bills mount – The Dominion Post
KEVIN STENT/ FAIRFAX NZ Goose Shack, in Adelaide Rd, Berhampore, has closed two years after it opened. Wellington’s Goose Shack restaurant has closed its doors and gone into voluntary liquidation. “We put everything we had into this … we created a dream and now we are trying to pull ourselves back together and figure out…
US travel tips & advice: How Australian travellers can transit through US airports faster – Traveller
Passengers at O’Hare International Airport wait in line to be screened at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint in Chicago, Illinois. Waiting times at the checkpoints were reported to be as long 2 hours. The long lines have been blamed for flight delays and a large number of passengers missing flights completely. Photo: Getty Images In…
High-end jewellery retailer Bensimon collapses into liquidation with $7 million in debt – SmartCompany.com.au
Luxury jewellery retailer Bensimon has collapsed into liquidation, with reported debts totaling close to $7 million. Bensimon Reatil Group operates the Bensimon Diamonds retail outlet in Melbournes Crown Casino, as well as an online retail business. Its related company, RR Fine Jewels, trades as Elizabeth Fine Jewellery on Elizabeth Street in the Melbourne CBD. The…
WA insolvencies up 21pc – The West Australian
Stuart McKinnon – The West Australian on July 5, 2016, 9:42 am Video Morning finance report – July 5 WA company insolvencies were up 21 per cent in the past year, well above the national rise of 15 per cent. Analysis and commentary by FTI Consulting revealed 1014 companies entered insolvency in the 12 months…
WA insolvencies up 21pc – The West Australian
Stuart McKinnon – The West Australian on July 5, 2016, 9:42 am Video Morning finance report – July 5 WA company insolvencies were up 21 per cent in the past year, well above the national rise of 15 per cent. Analysis and commentary by FTI Consulting revealed 1014 companies entered insolvency in the 12 months…
Bad Debt Piled in Italian Banks Looms as Next Crisis – Wall Street Journal
July 4, 2016 6:38 p.m. ET MILANBritains vote to leave the EU has produced dire predictions for the U.K. economy. The damage to the rest of Europe could be more immediate and potentially more serious. Nowhere is the risk concentrated more heavily than in the Italian banking sector. In Italy, 17% of banks loans are…
Half fail to pay public school fee – The West Australian
Bethany Hiatt Education Editor – The West Australian on July 5, 2016, 12:50 am Video Billionaires tough love plan for kids who wag Almost half of parents of public secondary school students failed to pay a $235 voluntary fee last year. Only two high schools and 17 primary schools out of nearly 800 public schools…