Our insolvency disputes team can advise at all stages in a distressed situation, whether you are a business in financial difficulty, an incumbent stakeholder, a potential investor or an insolvency practitioner. Our insolvency disputes experts have experience advising on a range of cases, including in brand name insolvencies and complex cross border cases.
We have experience acting for all stakeholders, including insolvency practitioners, creditors, lenders, regulators, landlords, directors and companies on a wide range of contentious insolvency issues.
We provide expert legal and commercial solutions to protect and enforce our client’s rights and mitigate risk.
Our insolvency disputes team sits within our wider dispute resolution team, meaning they collectively also have experience of advising on a range of other related legal issues, including real estate, fraud claims, asset recovery, regulatory investigations, white collar crime, sanctions, health and safety, insurance, pension claims, banking, judicial review, procurement, and professional negligence.
We work closely with our corporate restructuring and insolvency team, offering our clients a full service for all insolvency and restructuring matters. Whatever type of dispute our clients are facing, we can offer a team of specialists in the relevant area, who also have in-depth restructuring and insolvency experience, to ensure that positive outcomes are achieved at proportionate cost.
We also offer a wide range of funding options and work closely with litigation funders and would be delighted to explore these further upon enquiry.
Areas of focus
- Assisting with litigation contingency planning in relation to distressed situations including potential challenges made by other stakeholders
- Advising creditors owed debts by companies in financial difficulty, strategies for debt recovery and mitigating loss
- Advising companies which are in financial distress, insolvent, or subject to a winding-up petition
- Acting for officeholders, including liquidators, administrators and receivers
- Advising officeholders on their investigations and pursuing claims against directors or third parties
- Advising on urgent steps necessary to protect the assets of the insolvency estate, including freezing orders and other injunctive relief
- Advising creditors on the insolvency process and claims in an insolvent estate
- Advising on challenges to director and insolvency officeholder conduct and decisions
- Advising on complex cross-border insolvency and litigation matters