Our Services | Expertise: Restructuring & insolvency

Restructuring & insolvency


Our established restructuring and insolvency team is universally recognised as one of the market leaders in the UK.

We pride ourselves on delivering the best possible commercial advice in a timely manner.

Our expertise includes:

  • services to Insolvency Practitioners - advising and acting for Insolvency Practitioners on all issues relating to their appointment, and subsequent administration of an appointment as office-holder;
  • advice to boards of directors - advising the boards of directors so that they act properly and minimises any risk of personal liability for the directors;
  • advice to Financial Institutions - acting for major banks and other financial institutions on the best strategy to adopt when faced with potential insolvency of a debtor (often borrower) company or individual;
  • advice to stakeholders - advising specialist lenders, creditors and shareholders on the best strategy to follow to preserve and improve their position;
  • corporate recovery - advising companies on all aspects of formal and informal turnaround;
  • cross-border insolvency - we have significant experience of insolvency matters involving cross-border issues, and a large network of international associates that we can call on as well as having our own internal cross border expertise;
  • directors’ disqualification - advising directors who are the subject of disqualification proceedings brought against them by the authorities;
  • personal insolvency - acting for trustees in bankruptcy in realising the assets of bankruptcy estates;
  • regulatory - dealing with all aspects of regulatory problems encountered by Insolvency Practitioners; and
  • banking & restructuring - advising banks and other debt providers, businesses purchasers, growing businesses and those in financial difficulty in all aspects of banking, financing and recovery matters.