Industry News & Insight

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

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IT Contractors: Beware the Wrongful Trading Risk

Opus partner, Steve Parker writes in Contractor UK magazine, warning IT contractors on the risks of being accused of wrongful trading and how to avoid […]

City Link’s collapse ‘to be first of many’

December 27, 2014

Our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood quoted in the Daily Mail on the challenges facing the retail sector. The demise of parcel delivery firm City […]

High street braced for ‘killer’ January

November 23, 2014

    Our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood comments in the Sunday Express on the threats to vulnerable retailers over the forthcoming festive season:  “The […]

Challenges facing Tesco

October 21, 2014

Our Business Risk Advisor, Nick Hood is interviewed on BBC World about the many challenges facing Tesco under the new leadership of Dave Lewis. Click […]

The inexorable and dangerous decline in creditor engagement

October 14, 2014

Our Head of Creditor Services writes for Corporate Insolvency & Restructuring magazine about the changing world of creditor involvement in the UK insolvency regime. Back in […]

Phones 4u: a financial tragedy waiting to happen

September 15, 2014

    Retail expert Nick Hood, of Opus Restructuring and Insolvency, said: “I think this has been coming for a while. “Previously, mobile phone operators […]

The debate: What is the biggest challenge facing companies now?

September 7, 2014

  A panel of experts debate the biggest challenges that companies are currently facing. Viable, successful businesses right across the UK economy are being undermined […]

Rescue firm Opus set on keeping SMEs alive

  Opus Restructuring, a specialist insolvency and turnaround practice, has launched with the aim of keeping troubled SMEs afloat, rather than putting them into administration, […]

Financial challenges in the legal sector

Solicitors could be forgiven for wondering where the next hammer blow will fall, after a terrible year since the introduction of the Jackson reforms to […]

Reform or die: the end of the road for traditional insolvency practitioners

Partner, Tim Dolder and Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood look at the challenges facing the UK insolvency profession as change overtakes old-fashioned attitudes: The taxi meter […]