Most Recent
Investors lose joint appeal bid to boost slice of Halifax liquidation assets
Alec Leopold 2021-10-27 3:13 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Investors in collapsed stockbroker Halifax Investment Services have failed to overturn decisions in Australia and New Zealand relating to the date of realisation of their investments which have decreased the amount they can recover in the company’s liquidation.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?

Halifax investors file Full Court appeal to boost recovery
Alec Leopold 2021-09-13 1:50 pm By Christine Caulfield Sydney

Approximately 1,000 investors of collapsed stockbroker Halifax Investment Services have challenged a court decision concerning the date of the realisation of their investments which decreased the amounts they could recoup from the company’s liquidation.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?

Law firm would have had onus of proof in Arrium cross-claim defence, judge says
Amy Munro 2021-08-19 11:56 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Herbert Smith Freehills this week escaped a cross-claim that its advice made it liable for the alleged losses of Arrium’s lenders, but the judge who tossed the claim along with the banks’ cases expressed doubts about one of the law firm’s key arguments, a warning to other firms caught up in litigation as so-called concurrent wrongdoers.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?

Appeal dismissed in dispute over $81.8M Parklea Markets sale
Appeals 2021-08-18 9:33 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Sydney retail personality Con Constantine has lost an appeal seeking to bolster a $4.25 million judgment in his favour over the $81.8 million Parklea Markets sale in 2016.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?

Banks lose cases against directors over $2.8B collapse of steel giant Arrium
Amy Munro 2021-08-17 12:15 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

A judge has dismissed two cases brought by the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and other lenders against directors of the failed steel giant Arrium, saying he was not satisfied the directors’ representations on loan drawdown notices were false or that the company was insolvent when it went into voluntary administration in April 2016.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?

Arrium settlement was a ‘substantial compromise’, judge says
Amy Munro 2021-07-05 4:05 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

A settlement reached in a lawsuit by the liquidators of collapsed steel giant Arrium against 10 former company directors accused of insolvent trading has been approved by a judge, who noted that while the settlement amount was “substantial”, the deal involved a “substantial compromise”.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?

Settlement reached in lawsuit against Arrium directors
Amy Munro 2021-05-05 5:26 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

A mid-trial settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by the liquidators of collapsed steel giant Arrium against 10 former company directors and officers for allegedly engaging in insolvent trading.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?

Herbert Smith Freehills says Arrium lenders ‘a million miles away’ from properly run case
Amy Munro 2021-03-04 6:54 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has attacked a lawsuit brought by a group of lenders against collapsed steel giant Arrium, rejecting claims that $430 million in loans was borrowed under misleading or deceptive representations.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?

Former Arrium group treasurer rejects liquidators’ ‘infected’ insolvency case
Amy Munro 2021-03-03 6:16 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

The former group treasurer of collapsed steel giant Arrium has hit back at claims brought by the company’s liquidators that it was trading while insolvent, arguing the case had been ‘infected’ by evidence from an expert who was also a plaintiff in the case.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?

Herbert Smith Freehills warned Arrium of insolvent trading risk, court told
Amy Munro 2021-03-02 5:43 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Doomed iron and steel giant Arrium attempted to stave off its inevitable $2.8 billion collapse and put off negotiating with its lenders until the last minute despite warnings from its legal and financial advisors, liquidators for the company told the court.

Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.

Already a subscriber?

Lost your password?