Feeling the WIP and recognising the law at Quindell
On Friday we explained how Quindell sees the market for industrial deafness claims as a big source of growth. What that also highlights is how the group is now in very large part a listed law firm....
View ArticleCourting Slater & Gordon – Update
An update lands from Quindell regarding discussions with Slater & Gordon, the Australian listed law group. Further to its announcement of 22 January 2015, Quindell Plc (AIM: QPP.L) notes the...
View ArticleDear Slater & Gordon shareholders
Congratulations! Assuming Quindell shareholders give it the nod and UK financial and legal regulators approve, the Australian-listed law group Slater & Gordon will soon be the proud owner of...
View ArticleWhat is Slater & Gordon?
In 1935 Bill Slater and Hugh Gordon started a Melbourne law firm to serve local union members. Eighty years later the impetus is broadly the same, to offer decent legal services at an affordable price,...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon and the ASIC
The Australia listed law group Slater & Gordon held an investor day on Wednesday to talk about its purchase of almost all of Quindell, the UK listed jumble of legal, technology and insurance...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon: oops, we double counted the cash
Slater & Gordon is the Australian law group which has bought almost all of Quindell, the London-listed basket of businesses balanced atop a law firm. On Friday we asked them about the difficulty of...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon & the cash gap – Update
At the end of June, Slater & Gordon announced errors in its past accounts. We had sent the Australian-listed legal group some questions on a Friday, and on the Monday it put out a formal statement...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon: Equal Access Funding, off the balance sheet
Five years ago the Australian law firm Slater & Gordon chose one of its senior partners, Paul Henderson, to congratulate a former colleague on becoming Australia’s first female prime minister. He...
View ArticleWhat on earth did Slater & Gordon buy? – Update
Earlier this year Slater & Gordon, the Australian-listed legal group, paid £637m (A$1.2bn) in cash for the Professional Services Division of Quindell, a large UK law firm tied to a motley array of...
View ArticleMaterial whirl
Materiality is the rock upon which public corporate information rests. If something happens at a company which is material, out it goes into public view, either in the regular accounts or, if price...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon were sold a pup, watch this space…
Slater & Gordon, the Australian listed law group, will report full year results on Friday, the first since buying almost all of the UK listed basket case Quindell for A$1.2bn. Presentation of the...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon: complicated, indebted and yet to be audited
Slater & Gordon, the Australian listed law group, on Friday released a complex set of accounts full of restatements, unusual accounting policies and changes to the way the figures are prepared and...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon: unreconciled – Update
Slater & Gordon has a problem, in addition to the ongoing regulatory inquiry into its accounting, a collapsed share price, and the consequences of buying a billion dollar basket case in the UK. The...
View ArticleTick tock, Slater & Gordon…
A brief reminder of the Australian listing rules: companies must deliver an audited set of results within three months of their financial year end. For Slater & Gordon, the Australian listed law...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon and some numbers in contrast
Slater & Gordon, the Australian legal group, delivered a fully audited set of results on Wednesday, the deadline to do so. Shares in the company — which have collapsed since it swallowed almost all...
View ArticleWanted: Slater & Gordon CFO
A surprise from Slater & Gordon on Tuesday: Wayne Brown, finance director of the Australian legal group since before it listed in 2007, is to step down without a replacement lined up. The company’s...
View ArticleJust you wait till the second half, says Slater & Gordon
Quindell was an assortment of legal businesses collected into a basket of troubles. In the year before almost all of the UK-listed group was sold to Slater & Gordon, an Australian rival, it made...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon: yeah, so, about that guidance…
Slater & Gordon, the highly indebted Australian listed legal group, announced on Thursday it had withdrawn previously issued guidance for the current financial year, which ends in June. The market...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon suspended (upended, distended…)
Overnight in Australia Slater & Gordon asked for trading in its shares to be halted while it works with auditors and advisors to finalise earnings, due Monday. The problem appears to be the remains...
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