Industry News & Insight
We post regularly in our news and insight section discussing current industry topics, covering all divisions within the Group.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Credit risk management post-pandemic – Part 2
The Covid crisis has taken many accepted truths and thrown them up in the air, like a confetti of commercial confusion. In our first article […]
Credit risk management post-pandemic – Part 1
Credit risk disciplines The Coronavirus crisis has not so much moved the goal posts for credit management professionals as relocated the game to another stadium […]
Has the return of Crown Preference killed off the CVA?
The Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) has long been a useful weapon in the armoury of business rescue experts, with an infinite flexibility designed to allow […]
The dividend ‘dilemma’: How to protect yourself and your business
It is common practice for director/shareholders of owner-managed businesses to take remuneration by way of a low basic salary paid through PAYE, with the remainder […]