A judge has removed two liquidators as administrators of a defunct company after finding they abused the court’s processes by demanding $69 million in damages from the directors of water filtration business Billi.
A judge has approved a settlement with former directors of collapsed advisory firm Linchpin Capital under which insurer RiverStone will pay $6.3 million, which will be used to fund the investor class actionâs claims against AIG.
A judge has indicated he will approve settlements totalling $2.7 million reached with disgraced senior barrister Norman O’Bryan and a cost consultant retained by the legal team behind the Banksia class action fraud.
A settlement with directors in an investor class action brought over the collapse of advisory firm Linchpin Capital is in the interests of group members, a judge has said.
A shareholder class action against KPMG and the directors of defunct mining company CuDeco is seeking insurance information and a limited number of documents from the directors ahead of mediation, to avoid a “train wreck” of a case, a court has heard.
The former chief financial officer of Big Un has become the third person to be charged with insider trading connected to shares in the defunct video producer.
The parents of deceased fraudster Melissa Caddick will take $950,000 to move out of a multi-million dollar property in Sydneyâs East, which will now be sold by receivers.
A class action of bond holders accusing Virgin Australia of failing to disclose its true financial position in a 2019 prospectus for a capital raising wants a contentious indemnity clause in the airline’s DOCA narrowed, in proceedings a judge has said âincreasingly resemble a farce”.
A private investment fund has won its claim as a secured creditor over $2 million in research and development tax refunds that a court previously found should go to employees in a fight over funds remaining following the collapse of fintech Spitfire Corporation.Â
Boutique litigation firm Banton Group has hired Laura Keily and Ryan McCrosson as name partners, as as the firm eyes expansion into the US, UK and Cayman markets.