A how-to guide for small business break-ups

I recently presented a seminar and workshop titled ‘When Small Business Relationships Go Sour – Options and Strategies for Recovering your Client’s Investment’. It is a practical overview of the ways to bring an end to relationships governed by structures involving trusts, companies and partnerships. The seminar paper is now available to download here: Small Business […]

Is there anything to gain from winding up a trustee company?

When your client is owed money by a trustee company, you may wonder whether there is anything to gain from winding up the trustee company.  The company is probably a $2 company.  The beneficiaries or the appointor will probably replace the trustee with a new one.  What assets will the liquidator of the former trustee […]

Managed Investment Schemes: The High Court says you can’t contract out of Chapter 5C protections

In Westfield Management Ltd v AMP Capital Property Nominees Ltd [2012] HCA 54, four members of the High Court held that any contractual term that limits the protections provided under Chapter 5C of the Corporations Act is invalid.  Section 601NB of the Corporations Act allows members of a registered MIS to call a members’ meeting […]