The placement of a caveat can have significant consequences as it can impact upon you selling or refinancing the property until the issue has been resolved.

We previously addressed issues surrounding shareholder break-ups from the perspective of those shareholders remaining with a company. On the flip side, while the same issues are often faced by outgoing shareholders, they arise in a different context.

At their heart, companies involve people – in the capacities of officers and shareholders. And where people are involved, personalities and expectations of those people often clash leading to disputes.

It has been 3 years since our landmark successful defence on behalf of CSR Building Products Ltd of an unfair preference action by liquidators of a company that traded with CSR.

Liquidators are more frequently taking advantage of so-called ‘mothership proceedings’ to pursue unfair preference claims against multiple defendants in respect of the same corporate liquidation.

The Banking Royal Commission shone a spotlight on the conduct of banks and uncovered numerous examples of misconduct in the financial services sector.