Receivers for Mainzeal Property & Construction and Mainzeal Living recovered some $28.3 million from asset sales and recoveries in their first 12 months and made payments of $26.5 million, including settling outstanding wages and distributing surplus funds to the liquidators. Bank of New Zealand, which was owed $11.3 million as secured creditor of the Mainzeal companies, appointed PwC’s David Bridgman …

Chorus, the telecommunications network operator, has lost a bid to dismiss a Commerce Commission determination setting the price for services on its copper lines. The High Court turned down the Wellington-based company’s attempt to have the regulator’s initial pricing principle set aside, and for the commission to redo the process after its first decision ordered Chorus to slash prices for …

Steel & Tube, which manufactures steel products, plans to buy the local division of India’s Tata Steel Group for $27.5 million. The Lower Hutt-based company plans to buy Tata Steel International Australasia on April 14, acquiring its stainless and engineering steel distribution business and composite steel floor manufacturing, Steel & Tube said in a statement. “Together we are further strengthening our …