CPDS Seminar: When Small Business Relationships Go Sour

On 20 November 2013 I will be presenting a seminar and workshop for CPDS in Melbourne, titled ‘When Small Business Relationships Go Sour’. Although framed in a small business context, the focus is on ending business structures and recovering assets, and is equally applicable to larger structures.  I will cover corporations, trusts and partnerships. In […]

Oppression and unit trusts – Wain v Drapac

The Supreme Court of Victoria has recently affirmed that the Corporations Act oppression provisions can be used when a company in which the oppression has occurred is a trustee company.  This has significant consequences for business relationships conducted through a unit trust structure that have turned sour.  Until the decision of Davies J in Vigliaroni […]