Our expert Restructuring and Insolvency team provides strategic, personalised advice to business owners, directors, creditors, and lenders. With extensive experience across all aspects of insolvency, we safeguard our clients’ unique interests through tailored solutions to complex challenges.
Our services
We specialise in helping our clients with the following areas of restructuring and insolvency.
- Corporate insolvency procedures – Administration and liquidation processes, including placing companies into administration and liquidation.
- Asset transactions – Advising on the purchase or sale of businesses and assets from administrators or liquidators.
- Pre-insolvency litigation – Issuing or defending winding-up petitions and seeking injunctions to prevent their advertisement.
- Post-insolvency litigation – Acting for insolvency practitioner’s in respect of all aspects of their appointment and the realisation of assets in a corporate insolvency.
- Debt enforcement – Serving statutory demands, applying to set them aside, and enforcing retention of title clauses.
- Director and strategic advice – Defending against preference or undervalue claims, handling claims against directors (misfeasance and or breach of fiduciary duties), advising on the re-use of company names following a liquidation.
- Director disqualification proceedings – Assistance for directors facing directors disqualification proceedings.
- Lender advice – Providing advice to lenders on enforcement options against defaulting borrowers for both secured and unsecured debt.
- Receiver services – We provide expert advice on the appointment of receivers and offer ongoing legal support throughout a receivers appointment. We also advise individuals and businesses facing the appointment of a receiver.
Why choose our Restructuring and Insolvency team?
At Sydney Mitchell our Tier two Legal 500 Restructuring and Insolvency team combines a boutique service with heavyweight expertise to manage the full spectrum of insolvency issues. We are known for our dynamic approach and transparent outstanding service from day one.
The team is spearheaded by Leanne Schneider Rose, acknowledged by the Legal 500 directory as a leading partner in her field, with strong support from Heleena Gandham who is also recognised in the directory as a leading associate.
Banking and finance services
Sydney Mitchell also provides bespoke service to lenders on their recovery options.
Please use our online contact form at the top of this page or contact us today on 0121 698 2200 to find out more.
Testimonials
“Leanne Schneider-Rose has an ability to understand complex issues first time and with speed and clarity. She has a clear understanding of numbers in the context of transactions and has the ability to make practical proposals in a succinct, yet detail-oriented manner. She is unafraid to provide uncomfortable advice and always does so with a personable manner.” Legal 500
“Heleena Gandham is exceptionally talented with a clever and calm attitude, and is also great to work with. She has a talent for detail and can be relied upon.” Legal 500
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