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During times of financial and operational challenges, business owners may require additional and responsive support from professionals that understand the exact needs of their business. 

To help business owners who are looking to access up-to-date information, we have created a Business Resilience Hub. Here, Directors and Shareholders of SMEs can access relevant articles to help build awareness, mitigate business challenges, and help their business through a crisis.

Within the Group, our specialist divisions are ideally positioned to help businesses navigate their way through any challenge. Our support and resources help businesses when considering how to mitigate, prepare, respond and recover; pre, mid and post crisis, helping you to remain resilient throughout.

Insight & Advisory Articles

Scottish care home closures surge as deadlock over state funding continues

The appointment of Opus Restructuring & Insolvency as provisional liquidators to supervise the continuing trading and eventual winding down / closure of Hogganfield care home in Glasgow and Skye View in Airdrie in early June is just the latest bad news for the Scottish residential care sector, which had already been experiencing the largest number of closures for many years

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The insolvency priority waterfall

What happens to the funds raised by Insolvency Practitioners (IPs) after they are appointed as Administrators or Liquidators? This is a mystery to almost everyone outside the insolvency profession and is so often the source of huge misunderstanding and upset amongst those stakeholders who find themselves at the end of the queue for distributions. The best way is to look

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Why shareholders come behind creditors in the insolvency queue

Fortunately, few people have any direct experience of a company failure. When they do, the priority ‘waterfall’ for distribution of what’s left in the pot after a business has gone through Administration or Liquidation comes as a mystery. In an ideal world, there would be enough money to go round, but, in reality, it is rarely that straight forward. Due

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How business liabilities can balloon during insolvency

Following our first three articles on business devaluation during insolvency, we now turn our attention to the liabilities in the balance sheet. What is often not realised is how a business’s liabilities can grow faster than Jack’s Beanstalk once the business has transitioned from a going concern to a financial downturn ending in insolvency proceedings. This can occur on a

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How current assets melt away in an insolvency situation

In this third instalment on the devaluation of a business during insolvency, we turn our attention to current assets. These assets can not only shrink alarmingly in value during insolvency proceedings, but can also, in some circumstances, actually turn into net liabilities. How can current assets lose value? Inventories Inventories include a wide range of different items. From raw material

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What happens to non-current assets in an insolvency situation?

In our first article in this series, we looked at the mystery of why apparently solvent companies end up heavily devalued and paying almost nothing to their unsecured creditors if they have the misfortune to file for insolvency. Now we dive into more detail into the conflict between book values and real life realisations in an insolvency context, starting with a

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