Jim Delegat, managing director of winemaker Delegat’s Group, has failed in a High Court attempt to recover payments on an incomplete yacht from a director of failed luxury yacht maker Salthouse Marine. Justice Mark Woolford ruled that Perth-based naval architect Christopher Norman didn’t breach his director’s duties under the Companies Act while a director of Salthouse between December 2008 and …

The Serious Fraud Office has lost the first round in it its bid to appeal a ruling clearing Capital + Merchant Finance directors Wayne Douglas and Neal Nicholls over the so-called ‘Hub loans’. In the High Court in Auckland, Justice Edwin Wylie turned down the Crown’s application for the judge to revisit three questions of law surrounding the Palmerston North …

Insurance Australia Group, whose ASX-listed shares have surged 63 percent this year, is selling its unprofitable UK operations, taking a loss of about $240 million on them in the 2013 year. The Sydney-based insurer, which runs the NZI, State and AMI insurance bands in New Zealand, will sell its Equity Red Star motor insurance business in the UK to buyout …