Acting Agency - voluntary liquidation - starts new company next day ... obligations to previous actors?
If an acting agency goes into voluntary liquidation but then starts a new company the next day, with the same sole-director and staff, what are the obligations with regards representation of the actors on their books under the previous agency?
Over the last couple of years they've tried (I believe relatively unsuccessfully) to start charging existing actors a "membership fee" ... the current line is that they won't be automatically continuing to represent past actors and are inviting actors to contact them to discuss options moving forwards. I suspect this is in an effort to force the subscription model. While not illegal (as far as I'm aware), I mention this just as an indication of the underlying motives. It's a poor model that will relegate them more to a lower tier talent agency.
There's a strong sense that they're simply trying to write off old debt that has amassed through poor business management and start afresh. That being the case, it's likely they'll simply repeat the cycle.
What would be the clever / subtle questions to ask in order to check for breach of anti-Phoenix?