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Case studies

Over more than 30 years, Ferrier Hodgson has worked on some of the biggest corporate collapses and corporate litigation cases in Australia and Asia. Our Case Studies section contains summaries of some of our key appointments.

Case Studies

Asset Tracing

A family dispute arose within a Trust structure where a number of beneficiaries sort to establish the asset base of the Trust as well as the exact structu [...more]

BresaGen Limited

ASX listed biotech BresaGen Limited had accumulated losses of $45 million and was running out of cash, mainly due to the funding needs of its US subsidiar [...more]

Brokerage Fraud

Alleged misappropriation of funds by a director through inter-company transactions and through use of irregular related party securities accounts [...more]

Company A

Company A ,  a vehicle for a consortium of resources to bid for and provide IT consultancy services to private and public companies alleged that [...more]

Financial Misstatement

Accounting misstatements were detected by a new employee in the financial statements of one of Melbourne’s largest health service providers The acc [...more]

'Company A'

A representative of a financial planning company was accused of inappropriately transferring clients upon cessation of employment to his new company  [...more]

Hosting an Infringing Website

Another landmark IP case where music industry has sued an ISP (Comcen) for hosting a infringing web site providing links to music files (not stored locall [...more]

Interim Management

Ferrier Hodgson was engaged by the Board of Transurban, who required a management team to run their day-to-day operations and to address the many issues a [...more]

Larceny and Unlawful possession

During Ferrier Hodgson’s appointment as Delegates over the National Wine Centre an anonymous tip off e-mail was received by The Treasurer for South Austra [...more]

Money Laundering Offences

Individual charged with illegal bookmaking and money-laundering offences [...more]

Music Copyright Infringement

The music industry has taken a strong stand against the use of commercial file sharing systems profiting off the back of music copyright infringement [...more]

Negligence Case

The trustee of a superannuation fund and the owners of a business sued their accountant for loss and damage they claimed they incurred as a result of alle [...more]

Profit Improvement

We undertook a confidential assignment for a major company (“Company X”), who required an independent review of the potential synergies that would be gain [...more]

Quantification of Losses

A dispute arose between the owners and operators of an electricity generation facility (the Plaintiff) and the builders of the facility as a consequence o [...more]

Reconstruction of IT records

We were appointed Liquidator to a privately owned company in the building industry On our visit to the company it was found that most books and rec [...more]

Recovery of Data

We were engaged by a financial services company to recover “lost” data Differences between the two directors of the firm led to the one erasing and [...more]

Strategic Review

We undertook a confidential assignment for a major listed company, who required an independent review of its strategies and assistance with their implemen [...more]

Trade Finance Fraud

Manufacturing operation obtaining trade finance loans via false instruments [...more]

Valuation of Project Equity

Engaged by a University to investigate the quantum of its project equity in intellectual property as a result of its participation in research projects un [...more]

 
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