Insolvency and restructuring

We work with accountants and insolvency appointees to advise clients operating across a range of sectors including manufacturing, venture capital, real estate, financial services, corporate and private trusts and pensions.

Our lawyers are skilled and experienced in contentious insolvency processes and have been involved in a significant number of insolvency proceedings, including cross border insolvencies. 

Our advice furthers our clients’ commercial aims, preserving the assets of a business or the value of an investment while implementing a restructuring transaction, exit strategy or pursuing litigation.

We work with businesses facing the threat of insolvency proceedings to defend claims by creditors. We work with the directors of insolvent companies to defend claims against them by liquidators.

We recognise that insolvency processes are being employed in increasingly creative ways, whether to assist in the enforcement of judgments or to preserve assets. 

We offer insolvency appointees flexible and competitive fee arrangements, including working with litigation finance to pursue claims which insolvent claimants would otherwise be unable to fund.

We act for insolvency appointees, businesses and directors in all manner of insolvency proceedings including:

• Asset recovery on behalf of companies in liquidation and administration
• Defending winding up petitions including urgent injunctions to restrain the presentation of a petition
• Appointment of receivers
• Schemes of arrangement
• Claims against directors for breach of duty