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Legal 500, 2023Restructuring & Insolvency
We handle a wide range of turnaround, restructuring and insolvency issues, involving corporate failures, commercial property and tax issues. We advise administrators, liquidators and trustees in bankruptcy on corporate and personal insolvencies, including business and asset disposals, CVA and IVA proposals and moratoriums. Our turnaround experts develop strategies to help management teams promote stability across their finances restructure their business and promote the best outcome for stakeholders. In that regard we can advise on Restructuring Plans.
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Jeff RobertsPartner, Head of Insolvency and Restructuring
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Liam BellPartner, Real Estate Litigation
Andrew TitmasPartner, Corporate
Darryl ChewAssociate, Corporate
James BatemanSolicitor, Corporate
In detail
We have also have wide experience acting for purchasers of businesses and assets from insolvency practitioners.
Our multi-sector experience enables us to identify the key drivers for change, turnaround and recovery.
We also handle contentious insolvency. Our litigators advise on preferences, transactions at undervalue, wrongful trading, director misfeasance and other reviewable dealings by insolvent companies acting for insolvency practitioners and for defendants.
Our restructuring team is led by Jeff Roberts, with Partner support from Tania MacLeod, Liam Bell, Andrew Titmas, Catherine Hammerson-Jones and Simon Walton.
Recent matters
- Successfully petitioned in the English Companies Court for the winding up of a foreign-based company, having rebutted the presumption that an entity’s Centre of Main Interests is located in the jurisdiction of its registered office.
- Advised the Supervisor of an IVA in connection with a creditor’s challenge to the Agreement under section 262 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
- Successfully acted for a Trustee in Bankruptcy in an application under the Charging Orders Act 1979 to discharge a Final Charging Order obtained by a debtor on fraudulent grounds immediately prior to his bankruptcy.
- Acted for a Liquidator in the recovery of sums due from a Director under an Agreement arising out of a Director’s Loan Account.
- Successfully obtained a bankruptcy order on behalf of the Supervisor of an IVA following the individual’s breach of the Agreement.