{"id":5976,"date":"2009-03-03T07:07:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T15:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2009-03-03T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T15:20:13","slug":"former-billabong-ceo-perrin-goes-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5976","title":{"rendered":"Former Billabong CEO Perrin Goes Bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/0651320700jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/0651320700jpg.jpeg','popup','width=232,height=156,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/0651320700-tm.jpg\" height=\"134\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"0,,6513207,00.Jpg\" \/><\/a>He was described as a &#8220;whizkid Gold Coast lawyer who made his fortune in the public float of the <strong>Billabong<\/strong> surfwear group&#8221; but yesterday <strong>Matthew Perrin<\/strong> (pictured right in a 1996 photo) &#8220;filed for personal bankruptcy with Insolvency Trustee Service of Australia&#8221; according to as story in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/business\/story\/0,28124,25136019-5017996,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Perrin and his family, which includes three children, live in a double-block mansion at the exclusive Cronin Island on the Gold Coast, worth more than $10 million, which is not included in the list of his assets. . . .&#8221;The house is not in this,&#8221; Mr Starkey said, noting that &#8220;most solicitors put their houses in their wife&#8217;s name&#8221;. . . .A statement issued yesterday by Mr Perrin&#8217;s solicitors, Minter Ellison, said the bankruptcy had been triggered by &#8220;the significant investment made by Mr Perrin and those entities that he controls in a supermarket and property group located in the Xian and Hunan provinces in China over a period of more than three years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like Mr. &#8220;Noexcuses&#8221; has a couple pretty good ones now. It is nice to know that this time his financial foibles have nothing to do with Billabong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/business\/story\/0,28124,25136019-5017996,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,25135458-664,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Herald Sun<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was described as a &#8220;whizkid Gold Coast lawyer who made his fortune in the public float of the Billabong surfwear group&#8221; but yesterday Matthew Perrin (pictured right in a 1996 photo) &#8220;filed for personal bankruptcy with Insolvency Trustee Service of Australia&#8221; according to as story in The Australian. Mr Perrin and his family, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}