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Insolvency lawyers

Specialist legal support for tough times.

Your business may find itself facing insolvency due to debts, trading liabilities or a tax/VAT bill with the result of a winding-up petition. As experts in insolvency law, we understand the stress potential insolvency can place on a business, its owners and management.

Concerns about the financial position of your business require carefully planned actions and specialist advice. We advise businesses and company directors who find themselves in distressed financial circumstances and subject to formal insolvency proceedings. We also work with secured and unsecured creditors facing difficult choices where a debtor is or may be insolvent. We are able to work with you to resolve all such issues.

From restructurings and administrations to liquidations and wrongful or fraudulent trading, our lawyers offer experienced legal advice.

These are just some of the areas we cover, please contact us to find out more

Opposing winding up petitions

We can support you in disputing the debt, negotiating a settlement or payment plan or applying to the court to have the petition dismissed.

Representing creditors

Whether secured or unsecured, considering winding up or bankruptcy proceedings against a debtor requires careful thought a solicitor can help you weigh up that decision against alternatives.

Restructurings and refinancing

A lawyer can help negotiate and document restructuring or refinancing arrangements to ease a company’s debt burden and improve its long-term viability. 

Administrations

Advise on and help implement administrations to protect it from creditors while alternative options are explored.

Asset tracing

Support tracing assets that have been hidden, dissipated or moved to evade creditors using court orders and investigative tools to locate them and assist recovery action. 

Liquidations

When winding up a business we can support you in realising assets and distributing proceeds to creditors. 

Wrongful and fraudulent trading

We can support you in avoiding persona liability for wrongful or fraudulent trading, or help liquidators and creditors pursue claims against directors who kept a company trading when insolvency was unavoidable. 

Tenant insolvency

We can advise landlords on protecting the position when a tenant becomes insolvent including recovering rent arrears and the restructuring process affecting the lease.

Personal liabilities

Particularly of directors who may have given personal guarantees or other forms of personal security for company borrowings.

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