London, United Kingdom
INSOLVENCY & RESTRUCTURING EXPERIENCE INCLUDES:
Acting almost exclusively for insolvency practitioners but also advising debtors, creditors and company directors on an extensive range of corporate and personal insolvency procedures.
Corporate Insolvency:
Personal Insolvency, all aspects including:
NOTABLE INSTRUCTIONS
Contentious Insolvency
Non-contentious Insolvency
COMMERCIAL AND GENERAL LITIGATION EXPERIENCE INCLUDES:
Senior Associate
Solicitor
Attorney at Law (voluntary role through NGO)
INSOLVENCY & RESTRUCTURING EXPERIENCE INCLUDES:
Acting almost exclusively for insolvency practitioners but also advising debtors, creditors and company directors on an extensive range of corporate and personal insolvency procedures.
Corporate Insolvency:
Advising and bringing proceedings on behalf of officeholders on preference, undervalue, wrongful and fraudulent trading actions
Provision of technical and compliance support to Insolvency Practitioners s.216 prohibited name applications
Applications for company restoration, to defer dissolution and for rectification of the Register Validation order applications
Advising office holders on retention of title claims Advising directors as to insolvency and recovery options and implementing the same Personal Insolvency,
all aspects including: IVAs
Antecedent transaction proceedings
Applications to set method of trustee’s remuneration
Applications to suspend automatic discharge
Annulment applications
Asset realisation and matrimonial home proceedings s.366 applications
Reinstatement of bankruptcy petitions
University
1992 - 1996
Bachelor of Laws, LLB (Hons)
University
1996 - 1997
Legal Practice Course
Contentious Insolvency
Six day wrongful trading trial of four directors of family construction business
Emergency appointment of provisional liquidator of luxury car company with injunctive relief
Acting on behalf of Trustees in investigating their interest in and realising (often multiple) properties owned by single bankrupt. Following through with evictions of tenants, writs of restitution, committal applications including appeals to the High Court as necessary
Successful and comprehensive defence on behalf of a company against a range of antecedent transaction allegations of combined value circa £500,000
Section 112 application following acquisition by former liquidator of substantial funds post-liquidation but prior to deferred dissolution date
Have acted for BIS in directors’ disqualification proceedings covering London and SE England and acted for directors in s.17 CDDA 1986 (permission to act) applications
Acting in antecedent application on behalf of liquidator of record company in relation to assignment by director of record company back catalogue
Acting for directors in defence of misfeasance claims, Companies Act 2006 breaches, outstanding loan accounts and unlawful dividend claims. Investigating and bringing actions against such directors on instructions of office holders
In July 2015 I obtained the first successful order for a rescission of a compulsory winding up at the Birmingham District Registry in over 10 years
Application to recover unpaid LPA Receiver fees
Non-contentious Insolvency
Provided insolvency advice with commercial and sometimes political dimensions to the Welsh Ministers often concerning the following issues: o The liquidation and administration of various commercial enterprises in which there had been significant investment
o Provision of advice as to a variety of security instruments both as to their validity, priority and tactical and commercial decisions as to enforceability
Multiple instructions to appoint administrators (by all methods) and applications to extend their term of appointment
Advising cinema chain in wake of administration of major high street retailer and implications for their joint venture agreement
Assisting in provision of advice to UAE creditor business in relation to administration of Smithfield Partners Limited (Company Number: 06754735) is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA registration number 499315). A list of directors is available for inspection at its registered office, which is at Suites 19-22, Lower Ground Floor, Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue, London EC4Y 0HP Northern Irish debtor company
Acting for liquidator of record company in complex exercise to properly value global visual and audio royalty streams resulting ultimately in a solvent liquidation Advising Israeli creditor in respect of UK’s first Special Administration of an investment bank
Urgent advice to property development company as to potential breaches by Supervisor of CVA and its implications prior to imminent AIM floatation.
Acting for Joint Supervisors in relation to complex IVA principal asset of which was a hotel located in Germany owned by company registered in Switzerland
Advising on asset recovery in various overseas jurisdictions Assisting in relation to joint administrators’ sale of a high profile estate agency
Advising AIM-listed fashion retailer in respect of disposal of under-performing brands owned by subsidiary company
Acting for administrators in order to obtain bespoke software licence developed and withheld by third party owner (and former director) and urgently required to access company data
COMMERCIAL AND GENERAL LITIGATION EXPERIENCE INCLUDES:
TSOL: successfully opposed application by litigant subject to a Civil Proceedings Order that he did not require leave to bring proceedings for judicial review. Ewing v Director of Public Prosecutions [2008] WLR (D) 276
Acted in dispute concerning distribution of probate account following liquidation of father’s former transportation company
Applications under various provisions of Housing Act 1988 in order to evict tenants particularly accelerated proceedings and proceedings for eviction with rent arrears (ground 8 claims)
Long-running multi-track litigation concerning multiple parties claiming an interest in property post bankruptcy
Advising and acting for directors and office holders on company restoration applications and applications to defer dissolution
Acting in high value negligent and fraudulent financial misrepresentation claim
Debt recovery both in the UK and in overseas jurisdictions
Ongoing instructions in respect of litigation in the telecommunications sector
Ewing v Director of Public Prosecutions [2008] WLR (D) 276
It was necessary for a person who was the subject of a civil proceedings order to seek leave, under s 42(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, to make an application for permission to proceed with a claim for judicial review notwithstanding that the underlying decision he sought to challenge related to a criminal cause or matte