Bankrupt a debtor who will not pay
Bankrupt a debtor who will not pay We take you from a bankruptcy notice to a sequestration order, and put a trustee in charge of the debtor’s estate. Bankrupting somebody is a serious thing to do, and it is worth saying that the point of it is not punishment. It is that a trustee in […]
Legal support for company liquidators
Legal support for company liquidators We handle the legal side of your appointment, so the decisions you make this week are still defensible in three years. Most liquidations look simple at appointment and stop looking simple once the books arrive. Related-party loan accounts cleared at a convenient moment, a director who has been careless rather […]
Legal support for trustees in bankruptcy
Legal support for trustees in bankruptcy We take the contested parts of the estate off your desk, from clawing back transfers to defending your income assessment. A bankrupt estate differs from a corporate one in a way that shapes the whole administration, which is that the debtor is still there. They are living in the […]
Legal support for voluntary administrators
Legal support for voluntary administrators We work to your timetable, so the notices, the report and the deed are right the first time. Voluntary administration is the appointment with no room in it. You take control of a company you have never seen, work out what it is actually worth, form a view on whether […]
Wind up a company that owes you money
Wind up a company that owes you money We take you from an unanswered demand to a winding up order, and put a liquidator in charge of what is left. A winding up application is not really about ending a company. Most of them never reach a hearing, because the application itself is what finally […]
Issue a statutory demand
Issue a statutory demand We prepare demands that are difficult to set aside, so the 21 days work for you rather than against you. Some debtors pay only when not paying becomes more expensive than paying. A statutory demand is the cheapest way in Australian law to make that true. It carries no filing fee, […]
Corporate insolvency: your options and your exposure
Corporate insolvency: your options and your exposure We tell you whether the company is insolvent, what that means for you personally, and which options are still open. Your company is a separate legal person right up until the point it cannot pay its debts. After that, the decisions you make as a director start attaching […]
File for personal bankruptcy
File for personal bankruptcy We tell you what you would keep, what you would lose, and whether there is a better option than bankruptcy. Most people considering bankruptcy have already spent a year or two not considering it. The decision feels like a verdict on who you are, which is why it so often gets […]
Defend an unfair preference claim
Defend an unfair preference claim We assess the liquidator’s claim, run the defences that apply to your facts, and in most cases resolve it well below the demand. You were paid for goods you supplied. A year later somebody writes and says you have to give the money back. Preference demands land on businesses that […]
Collect your debts from an insolvent debtor
Collect your debts from an insolvent debtor We tell you what is realistically recoverable and which lever gets you there, before you spend money finding out. Once a debtor genuinely cannot pay, ordinary recovery stops working. Garnishees and writs are built for a debtor who has money and will not part with it, not for […]