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Insolvency

Our growing team of insolvency lawyers has built a strong nationwide reputation for providing quality advice combined with a pragmatic approach and good commercial sense. The Team works closely with our Dispute Resolution and Corporate/Commercial Teams, enabling us to provide an extremely comprehensive service, whether you are owed money by a debtor which has become insolvent, an Insolvency Practitioner requiring advice and assistance or are yourself managing a business which is facing insolvency.

Services to Insolvency Practitioners

We act for a large number of Insolvency Practitioners, both from the large multi-national accountancy firms and smaller practices and sole practitioners.

We provide the full range of technical and litigation support for all insolvency regimes. Having developed our expertise in this area over a considerable period of time, our insolvency lawyers have an in depth understanding of the types of issues Insolvency Practitioners face and the need for commerciality in their dealings.

Assignments taken include:

Advice and litigation in relation to all aspects of the administration of a bankruptcy estate.
Investigations, asset tracing and realisation.
Book debt recoveries (for more, go to our Debt Recovery pages)
Attacking antecedent transactions, in both bankruptcies and winding-up.
Pursuing former Directors for misfeasance, wrongful trading, etc..
Litigation supported by Conditional Fee Agreements and adverse costs insurance where appropriate.

Services to Creditors

Our breadth of experience as insolvency solicitors puts us in an ideal position to advise businesses when one of their customers becomes insolvent. With the huge increase in personal insolvency we have seen over recent years, it has become even more important that creditors have quick and easy access to good advice and practical assistance when faced with dealing with the insolvency process.

For more, please go to our Debt Recovery pages, where our Insolvency Assist and Debt Portfolio Management services may well be of interest.

Services to Businesses and Company Directors

Our Corporate Commercial team deals with the whole range of issues faced by businesses, either because they themselves are in financial difficulty or when they are dealing with other businesses which are insolvent. We have particular expertise in the following:

Advising both businesses and directors in financial difficulty, including working closely with our wide range of Insolvency Practitioner contacts.
Assisting with restructuring and turnarounds.
Acting on both the sale and purchase of insolvent businesses and their assets.
Advising and acting for directors facing disqualification and antecedent transaction proceedings.

For more, please go to our Corporate and Commercial services.

In-house Insolvency Practitioner

Our Insolvency Team includes a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner, Tim Mayner. Tim has approaching 30 years experience in the insolvency profession and his work largely involves taking appointments as Trustee in Bankruptcy and Company Liquidator.