Our Insolvency and Asset Recovery offering

• Insolvency disputes
• Asset recovery disputes

We are a leading team of contentious insolvency and asset recovery specialists, highly ranked in Chambers. We act for insolvency officeholders and stakeholders including corporates, lenders, directors, shareholders and investors.

Disputes arising from corporate and personal insolvencies are often complex and involve detailed legal and financial analysis.

We resolve disputes, monetise claims and pursue the enforcement and recovery of assets in an insolvency or distressed context. Our team has an outstanding track record of working effectively with the insolvency and business recovery teams at the major global accounting practices.

As a conflict-free litigation-only law firm, we are uniquely placed to work on disputes where other law firms may be conflicted. This often arises in banking, financial services and other disputes involving major corporates.

We handle the full range of actions under the UK’s insolvency and company legislation, including investigating, planning and litigating claims to challenge undervalue transactions, preferences, fraudulent or wrongful trading, transactions defrauding creditors, illegal capital reductions and improper dealings involving directors and companies. We also advise on complex restructuring disputes.

Our team has unrivalled experience in putting together innovative costs arrangements. We deploy risk sharing fee agreements, third-party funding and after the event insurance to enable our clients to pursue claims and recover assets from a position of financial strength.

A great majority of our work is international and we frequently coordinate claims in multiple jurisdictions, drawing on our strategic alliances with leading international law firms, as required. We are also experts in obtaining recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings in the UK, and UK insolvency proceedings overseas, particularly related to claims brought by insolvency office-holders.

Where necessary, we draw on the expertise of our litigation specialists in securities, trusts, employment, competition and tax to provide a comprehensive insolvency litigation and asset recovery service to our clients.