ASIC moves to strike three foreign companies off the register

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will strike three foreign companies off the register three months after the publication of a notice, unless it is given an acceptable reason not to proceed. The notice is made under section 601CL(4) of the Corporations Act 2001 and appears on page 17 of ASIC Gazette No. A42/26, published on Tuesday 20 October 2026. It is dated 16 October 2026 and names Advanced Microbial Solutions, L.L.C., Cegelec Oil & Gas and Trademax Global Markets (International) Pty Ltd.

The ASIC Gazette is the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette as published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, issued weekly and carrying the commission’s statutory notices. This edition, running to 18 pages, is given over to “Notices under Corporations Act 2001” and to “Company/scheme deregistrations”, the part in which the strike-off notice appears.

The gazette records only the statutory basis, the company names and their Australian Registered Body Numbers. It does not state why the three companies are being removed, nor does it describe their business, their Australian operations or any outstanding obligation. What it establishes is procedural: publication starts a three-month clock, and removal follows automatically if no acceptable reason is put forward.

The three companies named

• Advanced Microbial Solutions, L.L.C. — ARBN 621 789 062
• Cegelec Oil & Gas — ARBN 609 973 800
• Trademax Global Markets (International) Pty Ltd — ARBN 668 323 411

All three are registered as foreign companies, which is why they carry an ARBN rather than an ACN. The notice is signed off with the formula used throughout the gazette for this class of decision: ASIC “will strike the foreign companies listed below off the register three months after the publication of this notice, unless given acceptable reason not to proceed”.

Three months to show cause

Measured from publication on 20 October 2026, the three-month period expires on or about 20 January 2027. Until then, any of the three may put an acceptable reason to ASIC and halt the process; after that point, the strike-off takes effect without further notice in the gazette.

The four-day gap between the date of the notice, 16 October 2026, and its publication is the ordinary lag between signature and appearance in the Commonwealth gazette. The same dating pattern appears in the other deregistration notices in this edition.

Other removals in the same edition

The strike-off notice is one of four deregistration notices in ASIC Gazette No. A42/26, all dated 16 October 2026:

• Under section 601CC(3), page 16, ASIC will strike off Apex Australia Charitable Fund Incorporated (ARBN 057 197 314) three months after publication.
• Under section 601CL(5), page 18, ASIC has already struck three foreign companies off the register: HCL Software Products Limited (ARBN 151 578 808), Industrial Growth Platform Pte. Ltd. (ARBN 638 633 208) and Interrupt Labs (Australia) Limited (ARBN 663 160 807).
• Under subsection 601PB(2), page 15, four managed investment schemes face deregistration two months after publication: Daintree Hybrid Opportunities Active ETF (ARSN 651 905 314), Impax Global Opportunities Fund (ARSN 664 065 141), Mainstream Separately Managed Account (ARSN 631 635 473) and NovaPort Smaller Companies Fund (ARSN 094 601 475).

Rights of review

The gazette carries a standing notice that persons affected by decisions taken by ASIC under the Corporations Act 2001 and the other legislation it administers may hold rights of review. ASIC points readers to Regulatory Guide 57, Notification of rights of review, and to Information Sheet INFO 9, ASIC decisions – your rights, both available from the ASIC Digest, the ASIC website and the Administrative Law Co-ordinator in the ASIC office handling the matter.

The practical consequence is that removal from the register is not the end of the story for a party that believes it has been wrongly affected: the review pathway runs alongside the three-month window rather than after it.

For Australian clients, creditors and counterparties of the three companies, the notice is the operative warning. A foreign company struck off the register ceases to exist as a registered body in Australia, and any dealing that depends on its registered presence — service of process, enforcement against an Australian-registered entity, or verification of its status — should be settled before the January deadline rather than after it.

Source: ASIC Gazette, No. A42/26, 20 October 2026, Notices under Corporations Act 2001, p. 17 (official reference: a42_26.pdf).