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Has the rescue culture lost its way?

In this blog we reproduce (with kind permission) a blog by Chris Laughton, of Mercer & Hole in the UK, who is immediate past President of INSOL Europe, see www.mercerhole.co.uk Some of the issues in this blog, though tuned to the UK/European  framework and context, seemed to us to resonate here in Australia. In particular [...]
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Can we Trust Creditors Trusts?

  Some years ago it became fashionable  to avoid statutory protections of the Deed of Company Arrangement provisions of Part 5.3A, by resolving to enter into a DOCA which would immediately terminate and be replaced with a trust, extinguishing creditors’ claims in the VA/DOCA procedure and replacing them with claims as beneficiaries to the like [...]
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AMI (Administrators Appointed) – just in case you didn’t know!

This company has been in voluntary administration since late last year. Prior to its going into administration, the ACCC launched proceedings against it regarding its disclosure in relation to its erectile dysfunction products. Those proceedings are ongoing. Last week the ACCC obtained an interim injunction ordering the administrators to disclose that the company is in [...]
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