Discover the latest insights and developments
across the corporate restructuring landscape.
FILTER NEWS
SAFE HARBOUR – IS IT FIT FOR PURPOSE?
The recommendations from the Government’s Review of the Insolvent Trading Safe Harbour in late 2021 are now partly implemented. How will those reforms improve the legislation?
Safe Harbour
Restructuring and Turnaround
4TH SEP 2024
SAFE HARBOUR - HOW DOES IT WORK?
Wexted Advisors have market leading expertise in the management of Safe Harbour protection. Properly implemented, Safe Harbour provides DIrectors not only with the comfort of protection from insolvent trading claims, but also provides discipline and a framework where a Board can obtain clear, transparent buy-in to decisions, better understand the implications of decisions, and improve governance.
Safe Harbour
20TH AUG 2024
Safe Harbour Demystified
Joseph Hayes recently spoke to Paul Sanger at the Finance News Network, about developments in Safe Harbour protection and recent Wexted experiences.
Safe Harbour
16TH AUG 2024
What is Voluntary Administration
The purpose of a Voluntary Administration is to maximise the chances of a business in financial difficulty continuing or the return to impacted creditors. The process can be used to restructure the affairs of a company so that it can continue at the end of the Voluntary Administration process.
Voluntary Administration
19TH JUL 2024
Sunshine Private Hospital enters Voluntary Administration
Sunshine Private Hospital in Melbourne’s west enters voluntary administration after 14 months of operation
Voluntary Administration
18TH JUN 2024
Understanding Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation
Initiated by directors and shareholders, a Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation (CVL) offers a structured approach for winding up a company's operations, amidst financial distress.
Solvent Liquidation
Insolvent Liquidation
24TH MAY 2024
Understanding Court Liquidation
Navigating financial difficulties in business may require a strategic approach to winding up company affairs. Court liquidation presents a structured pathway to offering stakeholders a resolution.
Insolvent Liquidation
Solvent Liquidation
24TH MAY 2024
Tritium collapse another blow for Australian manufacturing
Brisbane based electric vehicle fast charger manufacturer Tritium has entered voluntary administration, with creditors owed more than $150m. Two significant local manufacturers in Tritium and Qenos have been placed into voluntary administration in recent weeks, a signal of current macroeconomic conditions. Wexted Advisors provides both safe harbour and formal restructuring services to clients.
Voluntary Administration
7TH MAY 2024
Australian Financial ReviewUnderstanding Small Business Restructuring
Small Business Restructuring (SBR) was introduced by the Federal Government in January 2021 amidst COVID-19 challenges and offers distressed small businesses a simplified method to restructure and reduce debts with the directors retaining control. Here are the key points you need to know.
Small Business Restructuring
13TH MAY 2024
Protect and Serve: protection of the insolvent trading defence – safe harbour
Independent advice is key to corporate restructuring success, says Wexted Advisors partner Andrew McCabe. Enterprise and innovation law reform in September 2017 introduced an insolvent trading defence to allow directors to maximise recoveries for stakeholders while protecting directors’ personal liability. With directors continuing to enhance their understanding of the merits of safe harbour for employees, creditors, shareholders, auditors, insurers and themselves, safe harbour will become more common in the short term as companies restructure their balance sheets.
Small Business Restructuring
Restructuring and Turnaround
Safe Harbour
2ND JUL 2024
During COVID the average annual number of insolvencies halved from 9,142 to 4,574. Accordingly, between FY21 and FY23 there were 10,337 fewer insolvency appointments than the pre-COVID 10-year average.
Wexted estimates 2,000 of the 10,500 backlog of average appointments may occur in FY24, with insolvency appointments forecast to be around 11,000, or 22% above the pre-COVID average. The balance of the 8,500 backlog, whilst softened by an increase in directors adopting small business restructuring and safe harbour protection, will continue to be unwound in FY25 where insolvency appointments may exceed 13,000. Wexted Advisors are a leading provider of safe harbour services to directors of ASX Listed and Large Corporates and offer Small Business Restructuring to companies with liabilities under $1M.
Voluntary Administration
Insolvent Liquidation
4TH APR 2024
The AustralianSafe Harbour: Some Practical Insights on Safe Harbour
Safe harbour: The potential to provide the greatest good for the greatest number. Andrew McCabe and Joe Hayes of Wexted Advisors share some practical insights on the safe harbour engagements they’ve conducted to date. As well as demonstrating the better outcome test in practice, they outline their typical safe harbour engagement process and list some areas of uncertainty that the upcoming independent review is likely to focus on.
Safe Harbour
2ND JUL 2024
safe harbour provisions a guide to insolvency protection for directors
Discover how Safe Harbour provisions can shield Australian directors from insolvent trading liabilities. Learn the criteria for protection and how it benefits your business.
Restructuring and Turnaround
Safe Harbour
21ST JUN 2024
Positive Signs Better Times Ahead for Construction Industry, AUTHOR Clare Burnett
Construction insolvencies have been almost constant during the past 12 months but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It may look bad at first glance, says Andrew McCabe, partner at insolvency practitioners Wexted Advisors, but not all insolvencies are equal.
Insolvency
Voluntary Administration
13TH MAY 2024
The Urban DeveloperNDIS provider GoodHuman forced into liquidation
A Melbourne based company which sells software to NDIS service providers has been forced into liquidation owing more than $3 million in debts.
Insolvency
Insolvent Liquidation
13TH MAR 2024
Australian Financial ReviewInsolvency Numbers in Home Building Increase to Highest Since Mid 2022
ASIC data shows that 1,655 new construction industry insolvencies were reported in the 8 months to February year to date, which accounted for 28% of the 5,965 insolvencies reported. These numbers were reported after a Sydney based builder went into voluntary administration, owing an estimated 200 creditors a total of $3.8million. The original article is from the AFR and should be referenced. this is the content from theoriginal article: Home building contracted 5.2 per cent in the three months to December, making for the weakest quarter in six as bottlenecks and labour shortages slowed activity, pointing to further weakness in a sector needed to boost the country’s stock of homes and more builder failures.
Insolvency
Voluntary Administration
12TH MAR 2024
https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/home-building-slumps-to-weakest-since-mid-2022-20240227-p5f85mTigerlily Swimwear Enters Voluntary Administration Again
Tigerlily Swimwear enters voluntary administration again, marking its second occurrence in four years. This article discusses the challenges faced by the iconic Australian brand and the potential paths forward in the retail industry's evolving landscape.
Voluntary Administration
Insolvency
12TH MAR 2024
https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/tigerlily-swimwear-brand-falls-into-administration-20240306-p5fa9bVictoria’s PE play on scrap metal recycling turns to junk - Voluntary Administrators
Wexted is offering Pacific Metal’s two parts separately: the Pacific Metal business based at Laverton North is being shopped to one set of buyers, while Metal Men Recycling at Pakenham is a separate auction.
Voluntary Administration
5TH MAR 2024
https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/victoria-s-pe-play-on-scrap-metal-recycling-turns-to-junk-20240206-p5f2nzTech wreck: Aussie start-up funding plummets two thirds from peak
Australia's venture capital industry crumped last year as investors stopped doing deals, and as the amount of cash injected into the tech companies has plummeted from its peak by two thirds.
Services
5TH MAR 2024
https://www.afr.comAustralian construction company St Hilliers goes into administration
Major construction company St Hilliers has been placed into voluntary administration, halting work on 21 multimillion-dollar development projects around Australia.
Insolvency
Voluntary Administration
5TH MAR 2024
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-05/construction-company-st-hilliers-goes-into-admininistration/103428320