Restructuring & Insolvency

INSOL World, the quarterly magazine of the global insolvency association INSOL International, has published an article by our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood on the widespread insolvency reforms happening worldwide. “Now an unexpected deluge of reform is overwhelming the global insolvency scene. In the past six months, no fewer than twelve countries have decided to upgrade legislation governing corporate insolvency, almost

Joanna Bourke analyses the bidding process for the business and assets of the failed retail chain, BHS for the Evening Standard, quoting Opus’s Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood. “The rumoured bid price certainly looks full, but the bid is led by a retailer with a well-justified reputation for succeeding in the market which BHS so utterly failed to serve in

Opus research for the BBC You & Yours programme has been quoted in a detailed and downbeat assessment of the financial issues faced by the UK care home industry published by the Investors Chronicle. “Research from the insolvency agency Opus for the BBC found that 13 per cent of care homes pay more in interest and servicing their debt than

Our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood is quoted in an article by Johanna Bourke for the Evening Standard on the BHS pension scheme issues emerging from the first day of the joint hearing by two Parliamentary Committees investigating the collapse of the retail chain. “Once the comfort blanket of the Arcadia guarantee was taken away, BHS must have looked like

Opus research and comments quoted and attributed by reporter Gill Plimmer in the Financial Times. Research by the insolvency agency Opus for BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours said last week that more than a quarter of care homes were in danger of going bust in the next three years. It said that about 13 per cent of operators were

Questions are being asked about the declining profit margins at failed retailer, BHS. Sunday Times reporter, Oliver Shah quotes and attributes research carried out by Opus. “BHS’s profit margin before Green’s consortium too control was less than 3%, according to Opus Restructuring, an advisory firm. It leapt to more than 10% by 2002 and stayed at that level until 2006,