Insolvency and restructuring
A comprehensive range of restructuring and insolvency services,
based on extensive experience and expertise, to help you make the
best of any situation.
Whatever the
financial climate, there will always be businesses who experience
problems, creating complex insolvency or business restructure
issues that involve many different aspects and require a wide range
of experience and expertise.
The Weightmans restructuring and insolvency
team includes restructuring and recovery specialists with expertise
in areas such as company law, finance, property, banking,
employment and dispute resolution, so we can advise you on the full
range of options available to you. We’ll give you pragmatic,
commercial, objective advice, to help you achieve the best results
whatever the circumstances, wherever you are in the UK, with a
national team of led by four core partners, supported by six other
partners and over 20 other dedicated staff.
Corporate restructuring &
insolvency
Our team acts for insolvency practitioners, stakeholders, corporate
entities and directors, handling all aspects of corporate recovery
work.
We can advise on how to restructure a business
to keep it afloat, including restructuring the balance sheet,
rescheduling debts and raising new funds.
When a restructuring is not possible, we can
help maximise the value gained for a business through formal
processes such as administration, receivership and
liquidation.
We have the experience to advise you on in all aspects of corporate
recovery, including asset and debt recovery, investigation and
asset tracing and realisation, including the recovery of foreign
assets and sale of estate property.
Personal insolvency
Our
team of personal insolvency lawyers has an enviable track record
for giving expert advice to insolvency practitioners, accountants,
financial institutions, and corporate entities on all aspects of
personal insolvency and bankruptcy. We can also act for trustees in
any insolvency.
We advise on all aspects of bankruptcy,
including asset and debt recovery, investigation and asset tracing,
recovery of foreign assets, possession proceedings, sale of estate
property, applications to suspend discharge and regulatory matters,
insolvent partnerships and insolvent estates of deceased
persons.
Insolvency litigation
Both formal and informal insolvency processes often involve a range
of contentious issues for the various stakeholders. Our specialist
insolvency litigators have extensive experience of insolvency
litigation including wrongful & fraudulent trading, director
misfeasance actions, transactions at undervalue and retention of
title disputes. We can assist with all financial and regulatory
applications including director disqualification proceedings and
the pursuing of administrators, receivers and liquidators for
breach of duty.
Distressed debt
investment
Our team advises lending institutions and
overseas investors on par and distressed trades, including all
aspects of investing and trading in distressed debt. Our services
include strategic advice and analysis of credit documentation,
assisting with legal due diligence and advising buyers on
restructuring and exit strategies to maximise the return on their
investment.