Regional news: Australia

Lawyers are working fast to complete the “urgent” sale of collapsed finance group Greensill’s IP and IT assets to Apollo Global Management, after partners from Grant Thornton were appointed administrators of three Greensill companies in the UK and Australia on Monday.

09 March 2021

An Australian woman’s US$1.2 million claim in a skin care manufacturer’s US bankruptcy has been thrown out after a California district court reversed the recognition of an Australian judgment.

05 March 2021

Simmons & Simmons has hired Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s EMEA head of restructuring in London, labelling the practice area “an investment priority” for the firm.

01 March 2021

In separate actions in Australia, the voluntary administrators of a Congolese gold mine owner have secured permission to serve a security interest claim on a Harneys arm in the BVI, while a Queensland court is to consider recognising a Singaporean personal bankruptcy.

23 February 2021

An Australian disputes funder has applied to wind up its Cayman oil company client after discovering that a US$12.6 million arbitral award it helped secure was sequestered by a bailiff in Albania.

15 February 2021

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GRR investigates how the Australian parent of a Congolese copper miner became the first company in the common law world to implement a guarantor’s scheme of arrangement, against a “well-funded, well-advised” opposing creditor and where restructuring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or England was deemed possible, but impractical.

12 February 2021

Australian satellite communications group Speedcast has won a Texan court’s approval for a Chapter 11 sale plan after reaching a creditor settlement that allows it to potentially file for voluntary administration in Australia.

22 January 2021

The administrators of Singapore-listed lithium miner Alita Resources have been blocked from effectuating a deed of company arrangement, pending a dispute over a sale process they oversaw for a mothballed mine in Western Australia.

07 January 2021

Norton Rose Fulbright has helped KordaMentha partners obtain a three-month extension to convene a second creditors’ meeting for the administration of Australia’s Grocon construction group, so they can investigate the benefits of a pooled deed of company arrangement without disruption from the Christmas break.

23 December 2020

Three international banks have been stopped from altering their pleas against former directors of the long-collapsed Australian miner Arrium, ahead of a 10-week trial of three different proceedings brought against them by liquidators, lenders and investors.

17 December 2020