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.…
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…
Jan. 19, 2016 4:45 p.m. ET A year ago, when the worlds elite last met in Davos, Europe itself appeared to have survived a series of threats to its cohesion. The launch of the European Central Banks quantitative-easing program looked set to underpin a modest recovery. Banks had bulked up on capital. A newly installed…
Romanias Policyholder Guarantee Fund, which will compensate those who held outstanding insurance policies at the Romanian insurance company Astra Asigurari that went into bankruptcy last fall, aims to get RON 680 million (EUR 150 million) from the companys liquidation. The fund will thus become the insurers largest creditor. Astra has already started liquidation…