Restructuring and insolvency lawyers

How can our restructuring and insolvency lawyers help you?

Our restructuring and insolvency solicitors provide a comprehensive UK-wide business restructuring advice service based on extensive experience and expertise, to help you make the best of any situation.

Our business restructuring team includes restructuring and recovery specialists with expertise in areas such as company and insolvency law, tax, 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 and objective commercial advice to help you achieve the best results, whatever the circumstances, wherever your interests are in the UK. The team also has expertise of cross-jurisdictional insolvencies with a particular focus on asset recovery. The team also has extensive experience of director disqualification work.

Our national business restructuring team is led by four core partners, supported by six other partners and over 20 more dedicated staff. We act for insolvency practitioners, stakeholders, corporate entities and directors, handling all aspects of corporate restructuring work, and can advise on how to restructure a business to keep it trading, including restructuring the balance sheet, rescheduling debts and raising new funds. The team also assist with advising directors on their duties and providing contingency advice.

Where restructuring isn't possible or desirable, we can help maximise the value gained for a company’s creditors through formal processes such as administration and liquidation.

Our restructuring and insolvency lawyers also have extensive experience advising on solvent restructuring projects, ranging from demergers (whether to separate assets following a shareholder dispute, facilitate a sale or create separate and distinct companies or groups) to capital reductions to create distributable reserves or return surplus capital to shareholders and internal group reorganisations of assets or subsidiaries.

By drawing on expertise across a range of disciplines from tax and corporate to property and employment we are able to ensure that any restructuring or internal reorganisation is carried out in an efficient manner, utilising the available tax reliefs and exemptions and helping to budget for, and manage, the costs of the project.

We work with a variety of organisations across many areas, including retail, higher and further education, manufacturing, hospitality, local authorities, SMEs and blue-chip companies.

Notable public instructions the team have acted on include:

• the North Brewing Company group administration
• the acquisition of the business and assets of Lumley Castle Hotel
• the acquisition of Chadderton Care Home for Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council