The founders of debt collections and high-interest lending group Panthera Finance were forced out of the company by administrators after they fell out over the operations of the Brookfield-backed business.

Brookfield Special Investments appointed PwC in late June, according to the minutes of a creditors’ meeting filed with the corporate regulator, after the failure “to secure a sale of the underlying businesses”. Panthera is one of the country’s largest debt collection groups, and counts the Canadian asset manager as a major financier.