James has over 15 years of corporate advisory, restructuring and insolvency experience and has been involved in a wide range of formal and informal corporate and personal insolvency projects across a number of industry sectors including retail, construction, mining, aviation, pubs and clubs, transport and logistics, Not-for-Profit organisations and property development and land subdivisions.
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BIO
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Qualifications
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Significant Engagements
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Specialisations
- Chartered Accountant (CA)
- Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Professional (RITP)
- Professional Member of Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA)
- Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ)
- Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
Key engagements include:
- Voluntary Administration of an ASX listed “buy now, pay later” group that resulted in a Deed of Company Arrangement and subsequent Creditors Trust involving a successful section 444GA application to transfer the shares and privatise the listed head entity.
- Voluntary Administration, Liquidation and Court Appointed Receivership of a Pub/Hotel group involving the sale of four pubs with combined sale proceeds in excess of $120m resulting in creditors being paid in full and a material return to shareholders.
- A group of 20 entities in the mining services industry with approximately 150 employees. Traded the business during the Voluntary Administration process resulting in a successful restructure of the business via a Deed of Company Arrangement.
- IT consulting business with more than 90 employees. Trade on Voluntary Administration and subsequent liquidation involving a $4.7m sale of business to an ASX listed group.
- Trade on Voluntary Administration of an Air Ambulance and Private Patient Transfer airline involving a successful sale of business.
- Voluntary Administration
- Liquidation
- Deeds of Company Arrangement
- Receivership
- Agent for Mortgagee in Possession
- Safe Harbour
- Bankruptcy
- Part XI Deceased Estates
- Part X Personal Insolvency Agreements
- 66G Trustees for Sale
- Restructuring and Business Recovery
- Insolvent trading and voidable transaction recoveries