"...a comprehensive, well-structured guide for those dealing with insolvency and restructuring aspects on a regular basis." German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce*
This manual examines the main formal processes involved in the world of corporate insolvency and restructuring such as liquidation, administration, receivership, company voluntary arrangements and schemes of arrangement.
The Fourth Edition covers:
- The Part 26A scheme of arrangement (or 'restructuring plan'), standalone moratorium and provisions for the protection of supplies introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020
- The regulations concerning disposals by an administrator to connected persons
- The Supreme Court decision in BTI 2014 LLC vSequana S.A. and others clarifying when directors have a duty to creditors rather than shareholders
- The legislative changes accompanying Brexit and other important developments in case law relating to cross-border matters
- The use of special managers in complex compulsory liquidations as seen in the cases of Carillion, British Steel and Thomas Cook
- The Pensions Schemes Act 2021 and its impact on the restructuring landscape
This is an indispensable reference source for experienced practitioners and offers junior professionals, company directors and company secretaries a valuable introduction to the subject.
*Review of a previous edition
Beale, Simon: -
Simon Beale is the Head of the insolvency practice at Mcfarlanes. He has more than 22 years' experience of advising on corporate restructuring and recovery issues.
Simon acts for troubled companies, their directors and shareholders and for the major financial creditors of such entities. His clients also include distressed debt investors, insolvency officeholders and a variety of other parties with an interest, or potential interest, in the troubled company's business.
Simon is the co-author of the
Insolvency and Restructuring Manual published by Bloomsbury Professional.
Bromley-White, Tim: -
Tim is a solcitor at Macfarlanes. He advises on a range of financial transactions, with a focus on restructurings, insolvency and debt financings. His experience includes consensual debt restructurings, administrations, liquidations and other formal insolvency processes, as well as leveraged finance, real estate finance and fund finance.
His clients include banks, alternative finance providers, corporate borrowers, creditors, insolvency practitioners and the shareholders and directors of distressed companies.
Tim is the co-author of the English chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Recovery & Insolvency 2019.
Keddie, Paul: -
Paul Keddie is Senior Counsel at Macfarlanes. Paul advises on a broad range of corporate restructuring and recovery issues.His clients include companies in financial difficulties, their directors and shareholders, insolvency practitioners appointed over such companies, lenders to and other major creditors of troubled entities, investors interested in a "loan-to-own" strategy and buyers of businesses where there is an insolvency aspect.
Paul's experience also includes a recent secondment at Warwick Capital Partners LLP. Paul is a qualified insolvency practitioner, having passed the Joint Insolvency Examination Board examinations in 2013.
Paul is the co-author of the Insolvency and Restructuring Manual, 3rd Edition, published by Bloomsbury Professional Ltd, 2018 and the "Directors and Insolvency: Dangers and Duties" and "England" chapters of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Recovery & Insolvency 2019.
