Full coverage: Insolvency

As managing partner of Mazars, Tom O’Brien leads a growing firm in an industry in flux. In this interview, he talks about being a liquidator during the crash, his ambitions for Mazars and the outlook for the Irish economy.

Pharmapod’s assets were sold last year through a pre-pack receivership for around €1.5m. Now, creditors of the Irish software company are poised to wind up the remnants of the company.

First, it went into examinership. A liquidation followed. Now, the company behind Slendertone has gone into receivership following a move by its main backer, the British lender Beechbrook Capital. The move could yet salvage the brand.

The High Court has appointed a liquidator to Galway-based wearable technology company Bio-Medical Research, the maker of Slendertone. The business had been in examinership since March but had failed to find a new investor.

The Currency has identified over 30 companies or business names connected with the directors of B Logistics over the past 20 years. They have one thing in common: All have failed.

New documents lay bare the financial plight of XS Direct, revealing details of how much the main creditors, including Beach Point Capital, are owed. They also disclose efforts to sell the company’s insurance book and intellectual property.

David Andrews lost his student travel business in the first Covid lockdown, then rebuilt it in Ireland and in the UK around summer work programmes. As customers complain of delays, can Usit be reborn yet again?

Mallinckrodt, a 155-year-old US pharmaceutical manufacturer, came to Ireland in 2013 to set up an intricate corporate and tax structure. After thousands of legal actions threatened to shut it down, its salvage deal has just cleared an Irish examinership.

Quoted Australian company Calix was set to acquire Co Louth firm Premier Periclase out of examinership. However, it has now pulled out due to spiralling gas prices and the only other bidder wants to reduce its 94 staff by 66%. What happens next?

Only a fraction of the €42m raised from Irish investors through an investment vehicle into a collapsed German property scheme is likely to be recovered, Myles Kirby has said in an update to creditors on the “complex” liquidation.