Restructuring & Insolvency

The Daily Mail Online comments on the offshore funding arrangements of the embattled restaurant chain, Byron Burger.  Our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood comments on corporate transparency and tax planning: ‘This is yet another classic private equity ownership structure, which maximises shareholder gains and by diverting heavy interest liabilities offshore, creates doubts about its willingness to pay UK tax despite

Buzzfeed UK’s business editor, Simon Neville reports that the embattled restaurant chain Byron Burger, which recently reported dozens of illegal workers it employed to the Home Office, has been taking expensive loans from overseas subsidiaries to reduce its tax bill in the UK. Our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood commented: “This is yet another classic private equity ownership structure, which maximises

Construction Enquirer reports on developments in the Administration of contractor, HOC (UK) Limited ahead of the meeting of creditors scheduled to be held on 10th August 2016. Click here to read the full article

We are thrilled to have been nominated for the short list of finalists for this years TRI Awards as Corporate Restructuring Practice with up to 10 IPs.

Contractor UK looks at the implications of Brexit for IT contractors, who run into problems getting paid by clients located in the EU.  Our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood provides advice. If the media’s Brexit tales about cancelled contracts, shelved investment plans and rumours of corporates upping sticks to leave Britain are true, never has the contractor community needed a

Ruth Davidson has written a savage analysis of the precarious finances of the UK care home sector in today’s Daily Mail, quoting Opus research and comments by our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood: ‘A significant number of the major operators have private equity-style business models, which means minimal capital and a lot of debt,’ says Mr Hood. ‘That is not great