What is a Cross-Director?
A cross director is an individual who holds office in more than one company at the same time. This can create shared risk exposure across those entities, as financial or legal issues in one company may impact the other.
What Does Cross-Directorship Information Show?
Cross-directorship details help you understand a person’s current and previous roles as an officeholder across multiple entities. This information is sourced from ASIC and includes both registered and deregistered companies.
Types of Cross-Directorship Information
Current Officeholdings
Entities where this person is listed as an officeholder based on the latest ASIC data.
Includes registered and deregistered companies.
Previous Officeholdings
Entities where this person was previously an officeholder but no longer holds that role.
Includes registered and deregistered companies.
Companies with Important Events
Shows the total number of notable events that occurred at companies under this person’s current officeholdings while they held office.
Previous officeholdings are not included.
Court Actions
Court actions against companies where this person was a current officeholder within the past five years.
Coverage is expanding, but not all Australian courts are included.
Payment Defaults
Payment defaults registered with CreditorWatch in the past five years while this person was a current officeholder of those companies.
ASIC Published Notices
All ASIC published notices lodged while this person was a current officeholder.
ASIC may also publish related documents. See the ASIC Documents and Published Notices Overview for more details.
ATO Tax Defaults
ATO tax defaults lodged while this person was a current officeholder.
CreditorWatch only reports ATO tax defaults that meet the ATO’s disclosure criteria.
ASIC Administrations
ASIC documents relating to external administrations lodged in the past 18 months while this person was a current officeholder.
ASIC Voluntary Deregistrations
ASIC documents relating to voluntary deregistrations lodged in the past 18 months while this person was a current officeholder.
Mercantile Enquiries
Mercantile enquiries lodged with CreditorWatch in the past five years while this person was a current officeholder.
A mercantile enquiry indicates a debt collection agency has conducted an enquiry on the entity for debt recovery purposes.
Important ASIC Documents Lodged
Important ASIC documents lodged against a company in the past 18 months while this person was a current officeholder.
ASIC may also release a published notice for the same event. See the ASIC Documents and Published Notices Overview for more details.
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