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Australia: Big trouble in small business restructuring

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Australia, Capital Markets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Baker McKenzie
Bankruptcy & Pensions Revisited: The O’Neill Judgment

Mr. O’Neill held a Buy-Out-Bond (BOB) with a pension provider. The retirement options were standard for such a product; allowing for the purchase of annuity, or investment in an Approved Retirement Fund (ARF) or Approved (Minimum) Retirement Fund (AMRF) as well as providing for taxable and non-taxable lump sum entitlements. Mr. O’Neill denied any entitlement of his official assignee (OA) in bankruptcy in exercising the retirement options provided by his pension where a Bankruptcy Payment Order (BPO) pursuant to s85 of the Bankruptcy Act 1988 (Act) had not been obtained.

Ireland, Employee Benefits & Pensions, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mason Hayes & Curran LLP
Australia: New Small Business Insolvency Reforms - How Statutory Demands will change from 1 January 2021

 

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The new small business insolvency reforms enacted by the Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Act 2020 (Cth) (Corporations Amendment Act) - which inserts a new Part 5.3B into the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Corporations Act) - are due to come into effect on 1 January 2021.

Australia, Capital Markets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Baker McKenzie, Coronavirus