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Mayfair 101 reaches settlement with IPO Wealth Holdings liquidators
Angel Aleksov 2022-07-26 12:13 am By Cindy Cameronne

Mayfair 101 has settled with liquidators of collapsed IPO Wealth Holdings after they won a bid to re-examine former director James Mawhinney over the transfer of “considerable funds and assets” from the fund to other entities.

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Mayfair’s James Mawhinney loses challenge to re-examination
Angel Aleksov 2022-04-29 10:05 pm By Sam Matthews

The former director of Mayfair’s failed IPO Wealth Holdings, James Mawhinney, has lost his challenge to a judge’s decision allowing liquidators to examine him for an eighth day about the transfer of “considerable assets and funds” from the fund to other entities he controlled.

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Mayfair’s James Mawhinney can’t escape further grilling by liquidators
Associate Justice Patricia Matthews 2021-12-14 6:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The liquidators of Mayfair’s failed IPO Wealth Holdings have won their bid to question the fund’s former director, James Mawhinney, for the eighth time over assets that could provide “significant potential recoveries” for shareholders.

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Judge to decide if lockdown class action lawyer’s clients must hand over details
Advocate Me 2021-04-22 3:59 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge will hear arguments by suspended lawyer Serene Teffaha, who filed a class action against the state over lockdown restrictions, over whether her clients can be made to supply their details to a Hall & Wilcox lawyer who was appointed to take over her firm.

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‘Sad and tragic’: Court winds up Mayfair’s IPO Wealth Fund
Altus Lawyers 2020-09-17 5:53 pm By Miklos Bolza

A  judge has ordered 17 companies connected to Mayfair’s “failed” IPO Wealth Fund to be wound up after finding the fund’s director put investor money at risk through “highly speculative” investments to make a windfall for himself.

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Mayfair director should not be put in charge of other people’s money, court told
Altus Lawyers 2020-09-16 7:09 pm By Miklos Bolza

Companies associated with Mayfair’s IPO Wealth Fund should be wound up because they contained assets “artificially inflated” in value and ran what was effectively a Ponzi scheme, the Victoria Supreme Court has heard.

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Court bars Mayfair’s Mawhinney from talking to investors ahead of wind up battle
Altus Lawyers 2020-09-07 5:02 pm By Miklos Bolza

Mayfair director James Mawhinney has been blocked from talking to investors ahead of a hearing on an application to wind up the IPO Wealth fund, after a judge raised concerns about investors being “misled and coerced” by the investment hotshot.

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Judge slams Mayfair director’s misleading comments to investors
ASIC 2020-09-03 5:05 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge has criticised “inflammatory” and misleading comments Mayfair 101’s director made to investors regarding attempts to wind up firms associated with the IPO Wealth investment scheme.

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Colette administrators not liable for rent payments in COVID-19 downturn, court rules
Coronavirus 2020-04-15 8:12 pm By Christine Caulfield

Administrators of collapsed retailer Colette by Colette Hayman will not have to pay over $714,000 in rent after court ruled that a temporary rent freeze in light of the COVID-19 crisis was in the interests of the company’s creditors.

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