• Restructuring and turnaround
• Bankruptcy alternatives
• Forensic accounting & investigations
• Receivership
• Liquidation
• Voluntary administration
• Other services

As New Zealand's leading specialist insolvency and recovery practice our focus and expertise is quite specific.

Our value proposition is simple: we achieve the best possible outcome.

We earn our clients' trust and build our relationships by listening well, keeping clients informed, being available, being responsive and acting with integrity. Our focus is always on achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients, and we have a proven track record of results.

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How our firm works for you

• Hospitality
• Rural
• Financial services
• Property & construction

McDonald Vague has extensive experience across a number of industry sectors including the hospitality, rural, financial services and property/construction sectors.

Our hospitality team has successfully restructured and sold numerous hotels, bars, restaurants and accommodation complexes for New Zealand's leading breweries and lending institutions.

Our experience throughout the rural sector extends from dairy farms to sheep stations, orchards to transport operators and from wineries to food distributors. Our knowledge of rural practices avoids incorrect and costly decisions, and creates gains in efficiencies and cost-savings.

Our Financial Services team has been involved in high profile finance company receiverships and moratoriums, so we appreciate the concerns of relevant parties.

Each member of the property and construction team has extensive knowledge of this sector, as well as crucial technical skills in insolvency, forensic accounting and investigation.

McDonald Vague has a solid reputation for demonstrating commercial acumen, maximising creditors’ returns and responsible fee management across all industry sectors.

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• Our news and articles

As a leading business recovery and insolvency practice, we regularly write articles on topical technical and industry issues.

To receive our articles as they are released, please subscribe to our monthly newsletter. To discuss issues raised in these articles, please contact the authors, or any other members of our team. Direct contact details can be found on our staff profile page.

For answers to frequently asked questions on business recovery and insolvency issues, please visit our FAQs page.

• Company reports
• Feltex

In a liquidation we report initially within five working days of our appointment (voluntary liquidations), or up to 25 working days (court appointed liquidations). We then report six monthly throughout the liquidation, and provide a final report on ceasing to act. These reports are mailed to all creditors who submit claims and filed at the Companies Office.

If you have a question regarding a specific case, please contact the manager of that case, whose details will be contained in the reports. We are always happy to answer questions from creditors, where this does not breach any confidentiality issues.