Restructuring & Insolvency
Our Restructuring and Insolvency team provides high-quality legal advice to both corporate and individual clients, delivering practical and commercially focused solutions across a wide range of matters. We handle each case with professionalism, efficiency, and responsiveness, helping clients navigate financial challenges and insolvency-related issues with confidence.
When businesses or individuals face financial distress timely and effective legal advice is essential. Our specialist Restructuring and Insolvency team has the knowledge and experience to guide clients through challenging circumstances, helping them understand their options and make informed decisions.
Whether acting for a company, business owner, director, creditor, or individual, we recognise that the consequences of financial difficulty can be daunting. Our lawyers provide clear, practical, and commercially focused advice, supporting clients at every stage of the process.
We take the time to understand each client's circumstances, thoroughly investigate the issues at hand, and develop proactive strategies designed to protect their interests and achieve the best possible outcome.
Whether that involves restructuring existing arrangements, pursuing recovery options, negotiating with stakeholders, or making difficult commercial decisions, we provide the strategic guidance and support needed to move forward with confidence.
CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING & INSOLVENCY
Our team advises clients who are proactively seeking to reorganise and strengthen their corporate structures whether through mergers, group reorganisations, or the dissolution of dormant entities. We also assist businesses facing financial pressures that require operational restructuring, cost reduction, or the streamlining of existing business activities.
Drawing on the expertise of our wider firm, we work closely with colleagues in our Corporate, Banking & Finance, Dispute Resolution, and Employment teams to provide comprehensive and commercially focused advice. This multidisciplinary approach enables us to deliver practical solutions tailored to our clients' objectives and circumstances.
We are regularly instructed by companies, directors, shareholders, lenders, investors, and creditors to advise on the legal and strategic considerations arising from financial distress and restructuring situations. Our team helps clients identify, evaluate, and implement the most appropriate course of action, whether through consensual restructuring, formal insolvency procedures, refinancing arrangements, asset disposals, or recovery strategies.
Throughout the process, we focus on achieving the best possible outcome while protecting our clients' commercial interests and ensuring compliance with their legal obligations.
INSOLVENCY ADVICE & REPRESENTATION
Our lawyers advise and represent clients at every stage of the insolvency process, whether they are considering insolvency options, seeking to avoid formal proceedings, or are already the subject of insolvency action. We understand the significant commercial and personal consequences that insolvency proceedings can bring and provide clear, practical guidance to help clients navigate these challenges effectively.
Whether you have been served with a statutory demand, bankruptcy petition or winding up petition and require immediate legal representation or you are seeking to negotiate an alternative arrangement with creditors, our team is equipped to assist. We handle matters of all sizes and levels of complexity, providing strategic advice tailored to each client's circumstances and objectives.
We advise companies and individuals on a full range of insolvency options, helping them assess the available routes is appropriate. and determine the most appropriate course of action. Our team regularly works alongside professional advisers including bankers, accountants, insolvency practitioners – often in their capacity as office holders or supervisors of voluntary arrangements, - to develop solutions that can often avoid the need for formal insolvency proceedings.
Where legal action becomes necessary, we work closely with our Dispute Resolution & Litigation team to pursue claims on behalf of creditors, insolvency practitioners, and other stakeholders. This includes debt recovery actions, misfeasance claims, transactions at an undervalue, preference claims, wrongful and fraudulent trading claims and director’s disqualification proceedings, ensuring that those responsible are held accountable where appropriate
Equally, where the clients are the subject of formal insolvency proceedings or insolvency-related claims, we provide robust and proactive representation from the outset. Our team is committed to protecting our clients' interests, challenging claims where necessary, and pursuing the most favourable outcome available in often complex and high-pressure circumstances
INTERNATIONAL INVOLVENCY & CROSS BORDER RECOVERY
Where an insolvency matter has an international dimension, our team is well placed to provide coordinated and effective cross-border support. Through our established network of associates in trusted legal advisers and professional contacts around the world, we are able to work seamlessly with overseas counsel to address complex international insolvency and restructuring issues.
We regularly advise on matters involving cross-border insolvency laws, the recognition and enforcement of foreign insolvency proceedings, and the tracing and recovery of assets located in multiple jurisdictions. By combining local expertise with international reach, we help clients navigate the legal and practical challenges that arise when insolvency issues extend beyond national borders.
We also welcome instructions from overseas clients, insolvency practitioners, office holders, lenders, and professional advisers who require assistance in the UK. Our experience includes advising on the protection and recovery of assets located in England and Wales, enforcing retention of title claim over goods held by insolvent businesses, assisting with investigations into the movement of assets, and pursuing debtors who have sought to relocate or transfer assets across jurisdictions in in an attempt to avoid their obligations to creditors.