We have experience in dealing with all types of Contentious and Non-Contentious Corporate, Personal and Cross Border insolvency issues.
As well as acting for Insolvency Practitioners, we act for others affected by insolvency, such as lenders, professional advisors, trade creditors, businesses and individuals.
We are supported by our colleagues who are specialists in Banking, Property, Employment, Corporate and IP and who have knowledge and experience of insolvency issues.
In addition, we have established a niche expertise for cross border work and through our membership of INSOL and ADVOC, a global legal network with over 90 law firms worldwide. This enables us to advise clients located overseas to open insolvency proceedings in England and Wales, as well as clients based in the UK to trace and recover offshore assets.
Please click here to view the latest Insolvent Business and Asset Sale Bulletin.
We have written a series of daily updates following the Insolvency Rules 2016, which came into force on 6 April 2017.
Find out moreProfessional service firms need to keep the Lender and the Regulator on side and we have the skills to manage these stakeholders effectively.
Find out moreHints and tips for struggling businesses
If your business has started to struggle you maybe unsure of what you can do to turn it around and minimise the risk of your business entering financial difficulties. Here are our top 5 tips.
Find out moreIf you are served with a statutory demand or bankruptcy application, the most important thing is that you act quickly.
Find out moreEach week we produce an insolvent asset sale bulletin that is circulated to clients and contacts and is published on our website.
Find out moreWe regularly advise office holders, charge holders, creditors, individuals and businesses on all aspects of cross border insolvency.
Find out moreWe advise Insolvency Practitioners, as Administrator, Liquidator or Receiver on the sale of insolvent companies, LLPs and partnerships. This includes advising on the validity of the IP's appointment, lender's security and suppliers ROT. We also advise on a range of legal and commercial issues, including employees and pensions, IP and IT and commercial property.
We can help you by providing advice on acquiring businesses from Administrators and Liquidators. We can also assist on restructuring businesses without the need for formal insolvency proceedings. We can also advise Directors on trading during the "twilight period" before Administration or Liquidation.
We advise lenders, creditors and landlords on the insolvency of their customers/tenants. We assist lenders to enforce their security; landlords on recovering rent from an insolvent tenant; advise businesses to recover goods subject to Retention of Title and assist in the recovery of debts owed by a customer.
Reasonable behaviour - recovering costs in Small Claims Track
If your claim is below £10,000 it will be allocated to the small claims track.
Find out moreThe Delaware Bankruptcy Court held that comity outweighed the parties' contractual choice of jurisdiction. Although claims would be allowed to be brought in the US, any recoveries would need to be pursued in Italian insolvency proceedings.
Find out moreSberbank of Russia v Ramljak [2018] EHC 348 (Ch)
The High Court held that "final determination" signifies the very last stage of any proceedings, without the chance to appeal. Sberbank were therefore still bound by their undertaking to take no further steps in an arbitration against the Company.
Find out moreCross Border Restructuring and Insolvency Update - April 2018
A summary from the Cross Border Restructuring and Insolvency Team.
Find out moreThe recent case of Best Friends Group v Barclays Bank PLC has shown the importance of getting the basics right from the beginning and highlights the necessity of compliance with the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR).
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- Cross Border Insolvency Update - February 2019
- Re: Agrokor DD et. al. [2018] Case No. 18-12104
- Gunel Bakhshiyeva v Sberbank of Russia & Ors [2018] EWCA Civ 2802
- How the courts treat bankruptcy petitions against personal guarantors (Wagner v White)
- Court refuses to set aside statutory demand based on personal guarantee (Wagner v White)
- Cross Border Insolvency Bulletin - December 2018
- New Media Distribution Company SEZC Ltd (formerly known as New Media Distribution Company Ltd) v Kagalovsky
- Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Robert James Leslie Stayton
- The correct use of funds in insolvency proceedings (Crumpler v Candey)
- Global Corporate v Hale appeal decision