Restructuring & Insolvency

Our restructuring and insolvency team acts for insolvency practitioners, lenders, directors, companies, individuals, and creditors. Their goal is always to achieve the best outcome, whatever the scenario, by using their expertise to deal with issues in the most efficient and cost-effective way.

Sectors of Expertise

Our expertise covers a wide range of sectors including:

Professional Services
Bridging and Short-term Property Lending
Insurance

Recent successes

Acting for shareholder of company in the leading case on whether a Company Voluntary Arrangement constituted a contract for the purposes of the Contracts (Rights against Third Parties) Act 1999 (case in the Court of Appeal) (Rhino Enterprises Properties Ltd & Anor [2020] EWHC 2370 (Ch)).
Acting for a director who successfully applied for a court order to put a high-profile law firm into administration.
Acting for directors challenging the appointment of administrators over their group of companies by an aggressive secured creditor.
Acting for investors challenging rejection of substantial claims in the insolvency of a large European insurance company.
Acting for the liquidator of a Gibraltar-based insurance company on UK legal issues.
Recovering assets of a bankrupt held abroad.
Acting on behalf of liquidators of a company involved in high level litigation funding.
Acting for shareholder of a company in respect of a multi-million Pound misfeasance claim against the company’s former officeholders

Areas of Expertise

We assist insolvency practitioners nationwide on all contentious, non-contentious and compliance matters including asset recovery (worldwide), asset tracing (including investigation into misuse of Covid loans), pursuit of misconduct claims, asset disposal and engagement with stakeholders in the UK and abroad. 

We work with lenders to evaluate and enforce security rights, advising on the most appropriate options in each circumstance. Our approach centres on collaboration with lenders and other professionals and is key to delivering the best outcome.

We regularly assist directors in complying with their duties. We help where they may be concerned about the company’s position and act for directors faced with claims from insolvency practitioners and lenders. We can assist directors with issues faced under loans taken out under Covid Loan schemes (e.g. CBILS or Bounce Back Loans).

If directors are faced with having to consider placing a company into an insolvency process, we make the process as smooth as possible.