People Ian Coupland Malcolm Jones

We provide excellent legal advice in relation to all aspects of business re-organisation through to formal insolvency appointments. Our advice is pragmatic and commercial which reflects a full understanding of our client’s needs and expectations.

Lenders and financial stakeholders

We provide comprehensive support to all classes of financial stakeholder offering solution based advice which includes maximising security and minimising risk exposure.

The services include:

Management and Directors

The aim of management is to preserve the value of their business and our priority remains to avoid formal insolvency if other avenues can be explored.

We will work in close partnership with the management of companies to understand their businesses helping us to identify the difficulties and pressures they face. This enables us to formulate solutions to resolve the problems and protect the interests of all stake holders.

The services include:

Corporate insolvency

Acting for all the major accountancy firms in the business recovery field our clients always receive a commercial solutions led service supported by expert legal reasoning provided by our team. Other practice disciplines including HR, litigation services, corporate support and intellectual property will assist in appropriate situations.
Our advice covers both rescue and recovery strategies and the pre-appointment consequences which will often include negotiating with major creditors. We also deal with the many post appointment problems including resolving disputes by litigation if necessary.

Our expertise covers:

Personal insolvency

We advise insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, accountants and individuals on all aspects of personal bankruP.T.C.y law.

Areas of advice include:

We will also advise in respect of individual voluntary arrangements and help individuals and partnerships in financial difficulty to construct sensible realistic and achievable proposals to be placed before their creditors.

Creditor support

We offer creditors whether they are secured or otherwise advice and attendance at meetings for all insolvency procedures.

We provide free representation at those meetings in appropriate cases for our clients anywhere in the UK.

We will liaise directly with the Insolvency Practitioner on behalf of our clients and provide assistance with the following:

We also have expertise in advising creditors on their rights in respect of the recovery of their property under retention of title clauses and also advise on the effectiveness of client’s terms and conditions of trade, circumstances where setoff is appropriate, the enforceability of liens, contentious remedies and voting rights.