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Save or salvage: the real role administrators play in troubled businesses

  • Written by Jennifer Dickfos, Lecturer in Business Law and Corporations Law, Griffith University
imageSuccessful rescue of a company is the ideal rather than the reality.Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

News that Australia’s third-largest pizza chain Eagle Boys has been placed in administration suggests a bleak future may lie ahead for the company.

Administrators have indicated they “are in the process of identifying restructuring...

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