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Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers

Our insolvency solicitors work collaboratively for the benefit of clients, providing commercial solutions and proactively tailoring advice that can address all the different legal elements of insolvency related matters, helping to achieve the best possible outcome.

When financial pressure starts to bite, decisions often need to be made quickly and with incomplete information. You may be weighing up how to protect cashflow, respond to creditor contact, and keep a business moving while you work out what is realistically achievable. If you are a creditor, lender or insolvency practitioner, you may be focused on securing the best return, preserving value and avoiding avoidable risk.

We help you take control of the position early and move it forward with a clear plan. That starts with getting to the key facts, identifying the options that remain open, and putting practical steps in place to protect your position. Where the right answer is a restructure, we help you negotiate workable arrangements and document them properly. Where a formal process is unavoidable, we guide you through it efficiently, with clear priorities.

Restructuring and insolvency rarely sits in one box. It can involve funding, contracts, property liabilities, employment decisions, and disputes over debt or ownership. We help you see how the moving parts fit together so you can make decisions that support the outcome you are working towards.

You will have a clear point of contact and a team that stays close to the detail. We will give you a steady steer on what to do now, what to line up next, and what to avoid. If your matter crosses into corporate, disputes, property or employment, we bring the right specialists together around one coordinated strategy, with consistent updates throughout.

Clients come to us in many different positions. You might be a director exploring rescue options while managing duties and personal risk. You might be a creditor seeking recovery or leverage in negotiations. You might be a landlord dealing with arrears and uncertainty over occupation. You might be an insolvency practitioner needing support on transactions, claims or investigations. Or you might be a lender considering enforcement and the best route to protect value.

We make it possible to move forward with clarity and control, and to put practical arrangements in place for the next stage. Our insolvency and restructuring team is independently recognised in Chambers and Partners (UK) and The Legal 500 (UK), giving you added confidence that you are in safe hands.

Pre-Insolvency

Our team assists financially distressed businesses and individuals at the pre-insolvency stage by recommending the best insolvency, restructuring and reorganisation options they face and help our clients to find the best commercial solution available. Our team also advises directors on their obligations and duties in order to reduce the risk of them incurring personal liabilities, debt recovery and negotiating with creditors as well as other affected parties on the nature and effect of insolvency.

Insolvency

We draw on the experience of our corporate and commercial, commercial property and employment teams to provide complete and seamless advice to insolvency practitioners and other stakeholders, including in the following areas:

  • Disposals of assets by insolvent companies, including pre-packaged sales
  • Acquisitions of assets from insolvent companies
  • Disposals of distressed properties
  • Drafting documentation in relation to insolvency appointments and processes and advising insolvency practitioners on their conduct and other issues
  • Advising on employment issues in an insolvency context, including on TUPE and redundancy advice
  • Reviewing contracts
  • Protecting assets if a family member is insolvent
Insolvency Litigation

We have extensive experience of dispute resolution in relation to insolvent and financially distressed companies as well as individuals.

This includes debt recovery and general dispute resolution, such as contract and negligence actions, but also the following specialist areas:

  • Claims against directors for antecedent transactions, such as preferences and transactions at an undervalue, misfeasance, wrongful and fraudulent trading
  • Advising directors on claims and disqualification proceedings
  • Asset recovery, including freezing and seizure orders
  • Book debt recovery
  • Advising landlords if a tenant becomes insolvent
  • Retention of title claims and enforcing security
  • Restoring companies to the register to allow assets to be realised
  • Statutory demands – service and dealing with applications to set aside
  • Presenting and defending winding-up and bankruptcy petitions

We appreciate that funding can often be an obstacle to pursuing claims in insolvency situations and in appropriate cases we will therefore consider whether services can be undertaken on a contingent basis with no upfront cost to you. In all cases, we will offer detailed costs advice at the outset and can in many cases act on a fixed fee-basis.

Whatever the issues to be dealt with, we offer clear, practical advice and from an early stage set out a road map to make it possible for clients to achieve their objectives in the most effective and efficient way possible.

To speak to our insolvency specialists please call us on 01772 258321 or make an enquiry below to see how we can assist you and your business.

Meet our Insolvency team

Charles Mather

Solicitor Insolvency & Restructuring Regulatory, Compliance & Licensing
t: 01772 208072
m: 07385 504637

Daisy Gielty

Apprentice Solicitor Insolvency & Restructuring
t: 01772 374682

Heather Morris

Partner Insolvency & Restructuring
t: 0161 528 3775
m: 07350 412210

James Robbins

Partner Insolvency & Restructuring
t: 01772 208503
m: 07775 515269

Peter Barlow

Associate Solicitor Insolvency & Restructuring
t: 01772 428193

Priya Anand

Apprentice Solicitor Insolvency & Restructuring
t: 01772 374694
Harrison Drury is a very organised department with proactive staff members. The firm has the answers at its disposal.

Chambers and Partners

Peter is a great communicator with a high degree of knowledge and wisdom in his field. He is very professional and extremely efficient.

Chambers and Partners

Peter Barlow is a talented solicitor rising through the ranks.

Chambers and Partners

Peter Barlow is exceptional at what he does.

Chambers and Partners

Peter is a great member of the team.

Chambers and Partners

James is a very useful and helpful contact on insolvency-related referrals and instructions.

Chambers and Partners

James Robbins is trustworthy and reliable.

Chambers and Partners

James Robbins is honest and straightforward in all dealings.

Chambers and Partners

James has excellent technical knowledge and always has the answers.

Chambers and Partners

James is a consummate professional.

Chambers and Partners