Unfortunately, some firms provide guidance which is designed to benefit them or which tells the client what they wish to hear. I believe that professional counsel should not be based on revenue streams to the firm, nor should it merely pamper to the wishes of the client. Professional insights and recommendations should be unbiased and truthful (even though they may not be palatable to the client) and should provide a solution which is in the best interests of the client and other stakeholders.
Maris is a registered liquidator, a registered trustee in bankruptcy and a principal with BRI Ferrier South Australia with over 40 years’ experience in insolvency. Before joining the firm in 2009, Maris headed his own independent insolvency practice for 12 years, Maris Rudaks and Associates. He enjoyed the challenge of running his own firm and garnered a great deal of satisfaction from its success. Over this period he was engaged in numerous complex and high profile matters including the liquidation of Banksia Productions Pty Ltd, the owner of the intellectual property in Humphrey B. Bear and of Golden Chef Australia Pty Ltd, a mobile food business with 400 vans in Adelaide and Melbourne. Prior to this, Maris was a principal and senior manager in the insolvency and reconstruction divisions of Ernst and Young and KPMG Peat Marwick respectively. Maris provides services in company insolvency, business recovery and personal insolvency. He is also regularly engaged to undertake informal arrangements and investigative accountant assignments. Maris’experience has been earned predominantly within the Adelaide market. His breadth of industry experience covers agribusiness, financial services, logistics, manufacturing, property, retail and tourism and hospitality.