Experts - Safe Harbour Protect

Our Experts

Our Safe Harbour experts have decades of experience
handling turnaround and insolvency matters.

Mark Pearce

Mark Pearce is a Chartered Accountant, Registered and Official Liquidator and Registered Trustee in Bankruptcy and has degrees in Commerce and Economics from the University of Queensland. He has over 20 years experience in administering all types of corporate and personal insolvency appointments across a wide range of industries.

Prior to establishing Pearce & Heers, Mark worked in insolvency with a number of firms including one of the big four accounting firms and a large national Chartered Accounting firm.

Michael Dullaway

Michael Dullaway is a Registered and Official Liquidator, Chartered Accountant and has degrees in Business (Accountancy) and Law from Queensland University of Technology.

Michael has extensive experience as an insolvency accountant, as well as prior accounting experience working in commercial industry. Michael’s insolvency experience includes providing general pre insolvency advice and assistance to company directors, insolvent individuals, accountants and solicitors and administering both corporate and personal insolvency matters.

Latest Articles

Appropriately Qualified Entity

Under the new safe harbour laws the engagement of an “appropriately qualified entity” (AQE) is a key consideration for courtsdetermining whether a director can rely on safe harbour protection. So what does this actually mean and who should you engage to provide safe harbour turnaround advice?

What Is Safe Harbour? All the Legal Stuff Explained.

By way of introduction, insolvent trading occurs when a person is a director of a company at a time when that company incurs a debt and the company is insolvent or becomes insolvent because of the debt and there are reasonable grounds for suspecting the company is insolvent or would become insolvent.

When Should A Director Access Safe Harbour?

All this talk about safe harbour sounds interesting and useful however if you’re a company director you will probably struggle to know when or even if you should be implementing safe harbour.