International Services

Opus has a world-wide network of lawyers and experienced professionals to support companies on a global scale.

International Services

Where we work

Cross Border Insolvency

A high percentage of UK businesses trade overseas, either as investors, or as exporters and/or importers of goods or services. Consequently, many UK business rescue assignments and formal insolvencies have some kind of international dimension; either the business concerned has subsidiaries, joint ventures, receivables or other assets in foreign jurisdictions or else some of its creditors may be located outside the UK.

Cross border issues in a turnaround, a restructuring or an insolvency can be complex matters, involving very different legal systems and business practices. It is essential that where such considerations are involved, the professional advisor is comfortable operating internationally and has both the relevant experience and access to the necessary resources in the countries concerned.

Opus has the benefit of having acted in many such cases in a wide range of overseas jurisdictions. For example, two of our partners, Jo Rolls and Steve Parker are the first insolvency practitioners authorised to accept insolvency appointments within the Qatar Financial Centre.

In addition, our Business Adviser, Nick Hood was responsible for creating and running the largest ever international network of restructuring and insolvency professionals, which had firms and organisations in over 350 locations in over 100 countries providing a total capacity of around 8,000 professionals and support staff. He retains these connections and in recent times has sourced overseas professional assistance on Opus cases to deal with issues in such varied countries as Australia, Canada, Germany, Pakistan and the USA.

Nick has also been involved in the development and modernisation of insolvency legislation in a number of foreign jurisdictions, including France, India, Poland, Romania, Serbia and South Africa.

Translation Services

In conjunction with our international services, we also offer premium quality translators and language specialists. Our specialists can accompany you to business meetings for concurrent translation, or translate either consecutively (front of house) or simultaneously (via headsets) at large presentations, or translate documents off-site.

We have over 300 translators worldwide and offer the following language capabilities: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lao, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Yoruba.

Our translation and language specialist service is managed by Sabrina Zhang.

Insolvency Practitioners in Qatar

“Jo and Steven are the only QFC licensed liquidators; I have worked with Jo and her team for more than 10 years in Qatar.  Accessible, prompt action and always a commercial response”