The corporate regulator has started court action against Sydney-based company Theta Asset Management and its director Robert Marie over Theta's role as responsible entity for one of the main businesses in the collapsed Sterling First property group.
Fremantle's Yolk Property Group is poised for further interstate expansion following its acquisition of national property management business Rental Management Australia.
Ferrier Hodgson has launched a quickfire sale of Rental Management Australia, one of 12 businesses associated with fund manager Sterling First that went into administration earlier this month.
Administrators have been called in to 12 companies under the umbrella of South Perth-based Sterling First, which claims to have a residential property portfolio of $900 million.
Perth-based Matthew Woods will be the joint leader of KPMG's greatly expanded insolvency practice after the 'Big 4' accounting firm finalised a deal to acquire Ferrier Hodgson. The merged entity will have 27 partners nationally and be the largest practice in WA.
Construction contractor York Civil has ceased operations, and while its joint venture partner is expected to finish work at the Matagarup Bridge, there is uncertainty around a recently won $30 million contract at Port Hedland.
South Australia-based York Civil, which is finalising construction of the Matagarup Bridge and recently won a $30 million contract at Port Hedland, has been placed into voluntary administration.
Perth entrepreneur Craig Mitchell and property funds manager Angelo Del Borrello are facing off over the future of four large roadhouses in northern WA, with the outcome having a big bearing on investors who pumped $22.5 million into four related property trusts.
The company operating Topshop's Australian stores has entered voluntary administration, becoming the latest in a list of retailers to stumble amid sluggish consumer spending.
The last 10 days of 2016 were a busy period for WA corporate deals, with the Rae family attracting a bumper price for its Gull New Zealand business, Chinese group MMG selling the Golden Grove mine, Diploma Group going into receivership and seven new listings on the ASX.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver says he's excited to take on the Australian chain of restaurants that bear his name after the collapse of their previous owner.
Former footballer and insurance broker Andrew Donnelly has failed to overturn freezing orders that were imposed in January in relation to the alleged misuse of $5.1 million of trust funds from his old business.
Triton Minerals is set to get a second chance after administrators Ferrier Hodgson released control of the business to a private gold company and a corporate finance firm, which will raise a combined $14.1 million and relist the graphite explorer on the ASX.
Governments, including local councils, and schools appear to be the biggest clients of building, construction and maintenance firm CPD Group which collapsed in May.
SPECIAL REPORT: WA's economic slowdown hasn't led to the dramatic rise in insolvencies many had expected, according to leading industry representatives.
Creditors of movie streaming service Quickflix changed administrators to Deloitte, just two weeks after the company voluntarily appointed partners from Ferrier Hodgson.
One part of the Dick Smith business has been snapped up by an entity affiliated with Harvey Norman, although employees will still need to wait for a liquidation process to receive overdue entitlements.
Quickflix founder Stephen Langsford has sharpened his attack on rival streaming service Stan, accusing co-owner Nine Entertainment of trying to drive his company out of business.
Cottesloe-based online streaming service provider Quickflix has gone into voluntary administration, blaming rival Stan Entertainment for its need to take the decision.
Subiaco-based Triton Minerals has been placed into voluntary administration, only two days after the graphite explorer's recently appointed chief executive Garth Higgo said it was well poised to advance its projects toward production.
Two business units of technology retailer Dick Smith could live to see another day, as receivers today announced that the majority of the empire will be shut down after a number of proposals to acquire the company were all deemed unacceptable.
The receiver restructuring Dick Smith with a view to selling the troubled electrical retailer says the company has been underpaying workers for as long as six years.
The long-running saga of the Windimurra vanadium project has taken a new turn, with listed company Atlantic pitching a low-ball offer to buy the $560 million development from one of its own subsidiaries.
Dick Smith will close every one of its concessions in David Jones department stores next week as the receivers seek a buyer for the ailing electrical retailer.
Dick Smith's fate may not be decided for another six months, with administrators set to apply for more time to investigate the downfall of the electrical retailer.
Dick Smith chief executive Nick Abboud has quit the troubled electronics retailer, which has gone into into receivership with debts of about $390 million.
Dick Smith, one of Australia's best known electronics retailers, has been put up for sale, with lenders taking charge of the troubled company after it failed to secure a funding injection.
The liquidators of failed engineering contractor Forge Group have gained financial backing to pursue a claim worth about $200 million against Forge's former major shareholder.
Struggling miner Mirabela Nickel has been placed in the hands of administrators, 15 months after the company completed an innovative restructuring to emerge from its first stint in administration.
