Our Experience and Industry Knowledge

McDonald Vague has been appointed as liquidators or receivers in several well known cases, including Feltex, Tribro Group, Barrea, Sensation Yachts, DML and Global Foods. Our partners, Peri Finnigan, Boris van Delden, Roy Horrocks and Tony Maginness are well known and respected insolvency practitioners.

McDonald Vague partners and staff are members of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants ("NZICA"), INSOL (international body of Insolvency Specialists) and the Forensic Accountants special interest group. We adhere to the guidelines, rules, regulations and ethics of these bodies, which provide for independence, service and integrity.

Our partners as well as our senior staff members combine their wealth of insolvency expertise with commercial acumen. They have specialist qualifications and skills in various industries and businesses, and a wide range of backgrounds including Chartered Accountancy, Agricultural Sector, the Insolvency and Trustee Service, the National Enforcement Unit, New Zealand Police, and New Zealand Army.

McDonald Vague are exposed to a diverse range of assignments and industries and have well established contacts and advisors.  We have advised clients through all the stages of insolvency proceedings, business recovery options, and negotiated on their behalf towards a compromise or settlement. Our industry experience includes agribusiness, transport, construction, retail, finance, manufacturing and hospitality.