Industry News & Insight

We post regularly in our news and insight section discussing current industry topics, covering all divisions within the Group.

Devaluation in a formal insolvency – the impact of costs

So far in our series on what a formal insolvency does to a previously solvent balance sheet and how it impacts stakeholder recoveries, we have […]

The best way forward when struggling to repay a Bounce Back Loan

When the government launched its business support loan schemes early in the pandemic, there was widespread praise for the initiative. The speed of roll out, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Why does insolvency reduce business value?

One of the great commercial puzzles is why the unsecured creditors of an apparently healthy business end up only recovering pennies in the pound on […]

A review of 2022 complex international insolvency cases – the challenges and how they were addressed

What do the collapse of a major cryptocurrency exchange, Britain’s allegedly biggest-ever personal insolvency and the devastation of one of Russia’s major gold mining businesses […]

As CBILS defaults rise, what now for struggling borrowers?

The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS Scheme) One of the three main pandemic loan mechanisms, the CBIL Scheme, ran from March 2020 to March […]

Using third party litigation funding

Traditionally, the prospect of taking a claim or a counterclaim into the dark world of commercial litigation and possibly into the courtroom is one of […]

Opus rescues Valeside Catering after its failed acquisition

Successful catering business with health revenue Valeside Catering Contracts Limited, a business incorporated in 2002 had been a successful husband and wife catering company, servicing […]