Our strong and growing Recovery, Restructuring and Insolvency Team has a wealth of experience in matters which range from pre-appointment advice, security reviews and corporate restructuring; through acting for administrative receivers, administrators, liquidators, nominees and supervisors in relation to formal insolvency procedures; to dealing with matters such as wrongful trading, preference and undervalue transactions, director and creditor issues.

Our team has the knowledge to facilitate creative solutions and implement them for clients such as insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, ailing businesses and individuals in difficult circumstances.

A difficult financial climate may also present opportunities for ambitious clients to buy businesses or assets from administrators or receivers, or via the "pre-pack" route.

If you have plans to acquire a business that is in financial difficulty, wish to examine your position or feel the need for expert restructuring and/or insolvency advice, your professional advisers need to be pro-active not reactive, and understand the commercial realities.

These skills form the cornerstone of our Recovery, Restructuring and Insolvency practice.

Here’s how we can help

We can help you with:

Contentious Restructuring, Recovery and Insolvency

Appointment of office holders
Wrongful trading actions
Recovery of preferences and undervalue transactions
Director disqualifications
Creditor issues - contentious debt recovery
Retention of title claims
Set off issues
Landlord's distraint and forfeiture

Non-contentious Restructuring, Recovery and Insolvency

Acquisitions and disposals of businesses and assets
Security audits for institutional, commercial and private lenders
Bespoke security - chattel mortgages, aircraft and ship mortgages, pledges, bills of sale, guarantees, letters of credit and set off arrangements
Rescheduling and standstills
Analysis of commercial considerations
Retention of title documentation and registration
Restructuring: S110 procedures, demergers, hive-downs