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Insolvency and Restructuring

Corporate Insolvency Solicitors

Our business recovery team are experienced in providing, clear, practical and detailed support to insolvency practitioners.

Our business recovery team have experience working with accounting and insolvency professionals to assist with the documentation and legalities necessary to complete transactions and support claims including de-mergers, hive ups and share for share exchanges.

Whether the matter is a solvent liquidation or an insolvent re-organisation or disposal, we have the experience to assist with documentation and legalities necessary to complete the transaction.

“Significant experience in handling large-scale restructuring and redundancy programmes. Clarkslegal is ‘technically excellent but commercial’”

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  • 28 July 2021
  • IP and Commercial

Personal liability of directors in the context of insolvency or company distress

Directors need to be mindful of incurring personal liability where companies are distressed. This article provides an overview of some of the key areas where directors could incur personal liability when navigating their business through difficult times and stresses the importance of taking and following professional advice when faced with financial difficulties.

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  • 15 July 2021
  • Restructuring and insolvency

Retention of Title Clauses and Insolvency – Practical tips

Watch Stuart Mullins, Corporate Partner at Clarkslegal and James Hopkirk, Director of Restructuring at Kreston Reeves as they provide a review of the law in respect of Retention of Title clauses and some practical tips on how to deal with those, from an insolvency practitioner’s perspective.

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  • 07 July 2021
  • Commercial Real Estate

How Covid-19 has impacted commercial lease rent reviews

When the first lockdown hit the UK in March 2020, there was a lot of speculation as to how it would impact the commercial property sector. A key concern for landlords was how rent review provisions would apply.

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  • 08 June 2021
  • Restructuring and insolvency

Using Pre-Pack administration process

Whilst the remaining restrictions are due to end in July, many businesses remain, and are likely to continue to do so, in a difficult trading environment saddled with COVID-19 related debt that will need servicing. It is because of this that many predict that these otherwise strong businesses will seek to explore the ‘Pre-Pack’ Administration process.

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  • 27 May 2021
  • Restructuring and insolvency

Insolvency: Looking ahead Pre-packs and Reforms Post Covid

Watch Stuart Mullins, Corporate Partner at Clarkslegal and James Hopkirk, Director of Restructuring at Kreston Reeves as they provide an overview of the key changes to the insolvency landscape over the last 12 months and what they believe will be the trends in insolvency into the next year and beyond.

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  • 11 May 2021
  • Commercial Real Estate

Can a commercial tenant get away with not paying rent due to the pandemic?

It has now been 14 months since we first went into lockdown and the government released measures under the Coronavirus Act to protect both residential and commercial tenants from being evicted if they had not paid their rent up to date.

“I worked with Stuart on a matter relating to a mutual client which was suffering financial distressHis calm and pragmatic approach aligned well with my own firm’s values, and he provided huge assistance in guiding the directors through a turbulent time.”

James Hopkirk, Restructuring Director – Kreston Reeves LLP