Mayfair 101 is an investment group which was targeted by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission in 2020 on a misconceived basis. At the time 570 Australians had subscribed for $211 million of debt instruments offered by the group. This triggered 20+ legal proceedings, hundreds of millions of dollars of damage, and left Mayfair 101's lenders without payments for nearly 4 years. Mayfair 101 is committed to protecting its clients against the mistaken actions of the regulator.

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Mayfair 101 noteholders have ordered the termination of a receivership initiated by a trustee on an unauthorised basis in 2020 to entities that previously held Mayfair’s $200 million plus real estate investment portfolio in Mission Beach.82 per cent of noteholders by value have given formal

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Noteholders Order Trustee to End Mission Beach Receivership, Return Control to Mayfair 101

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These text messages apparently detailed how in the early months of 2020 I’d travelled to the Gold Coast to meet a source, and how my wife had befriended another woman at a yoga studio and confided about my money troubles and desperation to solve them.

Mr Mawhinney was informed by a source that Mr Shapiro would stop targeting him and his business with adverse media coverage if a payment of $20,000 was made to Mr Shapiro's nominated bank account in South Africa. Mr Mawhinney did not agree to making the payment.

While the Financial Review was following James Mawhinney’s investment schemes, it turns out he was trying to follow us.

Australian Financial Review

James Mawhinney’s surveillance game of cat and mouse

Journalist award to be returned

Response

Lawyers acting for the Mayfair 101 private equity investment group have applied to the Federal Court this week to strike out ASIC’s case against the group’s Managing Director, James Mawhinney.The strike-out application was filed on Tuesday and seeks to have more than 50 paragraphs, in which ASIC

ASIC Faces Strike-out of Application Against Mayfair 101’s James Mawhinney

ASIC v Mawhinney

ONE NATION has just taken a $500,000 bath.

One Nation made a $500,000 payment to a troubled investment company responsible for the stalled Dunk Island redevelopment project. 

Independent Australia

One Nation loses $500K to troubled investment company

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"What I want to say to the Australian people is just be cautious dealing with him, anything to do with him because we have obviously been watching very carefully."

This is a most unprofessional statement for the Chairman of the corporate regulator to make about another Australian citizen. Mr Longo warns the Australian public from having "anything to do" with Mr Mawhinney just as ASIC’s cases get appealed. It shows a very desperate regulator afraid of having their case overturned, which is what occurred. It is a harmful, inconsiderate and ought to be retracted.

Three months into the job, the ­nation’s top corporate cop Joe Longo is emerging as much more than just the safe pair of hands that Josh Frydenberg at ASIC’s helm.