CONTACT

13-14 Old Square
Reception at 14 Old Square
Lincoln’s Inn
London
WC2A 3UE
DX 52 London - Chancery Lane
T: +44 (0)20 7831 4445
F: +44 (0)20 7841 5825
E: clerks@13oldsquare.com

We are open between 8.30am
and 6.30pm Monday to Friday.

Outside of office hours please
call Justin Brown, Senior Clerk
on 0777 578 1995.

Insolvency, both corporate and personal, is one of chambers’ core practice areas, and many members of Chambers are regularly involved in a wide range of disputes. Members of Chambers regularly provide advice, advocacy and drafting in the following areas of corporate insolvency: the new administration regime under the Enterprise Act 2002; schemes of arrangement; international and cross-border insolvencies (including issues arising under the EC Insolvency Regulation); fraudulent and wrongful trading; voluntary and compulsory liquidations; insolvent partnerships; receiverships and administrative receiverships; transactions at an undervalue, preferences and statutory asset recovery under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986. Clients include banks, lending institutions, accountants, major companies, and bond holders.

Chambers work also includes personal insolvency. Members advise and act for trustees in bankruptcy, supervisors/nominees in IVAs, as well as debtors, creditors and bankrupts. Typical proceedings include contested statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and applications concerning IVAs. Members of chambers are fully conversant with the substantial changes to bankruptcy law brought in by the Enterprise Act 2002.

Chambers’ insolvency work does not stand on its own, but frequently dovetails with other work in insurance and reinsurance, the Lloyds market and general company/commercial work. In particular, members of Chambers act in company directors’ disqualification proceedings and in public interest winding up petitions.

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