Second Dick Smith class action in the wings – The Australian Financial Review

Dick Smith shareholders who bought into the retailer’s $520 million initial public offer almost four years ago may be able to recoup some of their investment by joining a second class action against the failed retailer. Litigation funder ICP is finalising funding for a $200 million shareholder class action against Dick Smith after spending the last six months trawling through…

Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi’s husband’s business Premier Building Solutions folds with tax debt – The West Australian

The Australian Tax Office is $535,000 out of pocket after the building company of Joe Scaffidi, the husband of Perths embattled Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi, folded in August. The company, Premier Building Solutions, is one of the entities caught up in the long-running legal brawl between Mr Scaffidi and his estranged brother, Gino. In 2014…

Behind BMS Technology’s decision to call in the administrators – ARNnet

Accepting the reality there was “no future for the business” BMS Technology directors, John and Beverley Reid made the agonising decision to enter into voluntary administration. The Adelaide-based hardware distributor had been operating for 31 years and expanded into office and warehouse facilities in Perth and Melbourne. Peter Macks and Ian Burford of Macks Advisory…

Behind BMS Technology’s decision to call in the administrators – ARNnet

Accepting the reality there was “no future for the business” BMS Technology directors, John and Beverley Reid made the agonising decision to enter into voluntary administration. The Adelaide-based hardware distributor had been operating for 31 years and expanded into office and warehouse facilities in Perth and Melbourne. Peter Macks and Ian Burford of Macks Advisory…

Margin pinch sees Data Centre Technologies enter liquidation – ARNnet

The uptake of cloud-based solutions among local businesses and increased market competition are two factors that have played a part in seeing Queenslands Data Centre Technologies enter voluntary liquidation. Joint liquidators, David Hambleton and James Imray of Rodgers Reidy, were appointed on 14 October; more than two decades after the Data Centre Technologies began operating,…