Bryan Hughes

Perth businessman Warren Anderson has been named as a key player in the collapse of fuel pill company Firepower, which left its shareholders millions of dollars out of pocket.

Brainytoys has called in Bryan Hughes of Pitcher Partners as administrator to the company, ending more than a year of uncertainty surrounding the Perth toy company.

Platinum Australia has been placed into voluntary administration, citing operational issues at its Smokey Hills mine in South Africa and a costly dispute with a former contractor.The Perth-based miner and explorer appointed Bryan Hughes of Pitcher Partners as its administrator today.

Luke Saraceni’s Westgem Investments has been placed into liquidation, following a heated creditors meeting in Perth this morning in which leading insolvency experts argued over who should be appointed to the role of liquidator.

A HEATED creditors meeting in Perth last week shone a bright light on the tension between receivers and administrators of failed companies.

Navigator Resources’ struggle to raise funds has ended for the worse with administrators called in and about 200 workers being laid off.

Perth-based explorer Kin Mining has agreed to purchase the Leonora gold project in the Goldfields from the administrators of Navigator Resources for $2.7 million.

Pitcher Partners managing director Bryan Hughes has been appointed chairman of digital marketing agency Titan Digital.Mr Hughes is currently also non-executive chairman of Ferrowest. 

Struggling iron ore miner Pluton Resources has fallen back into the hands of receivers and managers, less than six months after the board regained control of the company, as part of a new structuring proposal.

Perth-based architecture firm DAPM Architects is in the hands of liquidators, less than a week after it was spun-out of national group DesignInc, but its managing director says the collapse represents an opportunity for a new beginning.

A major shareholder in failed manganese company Mesa Minerals has lost its bid to have administrators replaced after the Supreme Court ruled there was no evidence of bias between Pitcher Partners and Mesa’s largest stakeholder, Mineral Resources.

Oil and gas software developer Stochastic Simulation is expected to be put up for sale, two weeks after it was put into receivership. 

Pitcher Partners managing director Bryan Hughes has announced he will move on to chair the Perth-headquartered firm, with executive director Leon Mok to step into his role.

Oil and gas software developer Stochastic Simulation has gone into liquidation, about five months after it went into receivership, with secured creditors likely to receive about 4 cents in the dollar in a best-case scenario.

Our board moves wrap includes Timothy Murray , Gregory Romain , Tara Robinson , Mark van Kerkwijk , Peter Hume , Michael Hulmes , Simon Farrell , Peter Richards , Peter Frank , Paul Smith , Clinton Booth , Paul Brown , Tim Gilbert , Adrian Byass , Gordon Galt , David Kelly , Mai Hughes , Bryan Hughes , Francis De Souza , Adrienne Parker , Roger Aston , Robert Bishop , Thomas [Tom] Duthy , John Clark , Marcus Hughes , Sam Wright , Jason Froud , Richard Taylor , Jan de Jager , Tim Lindley , Mel Ashton , Mike Brook , James Henderson