No matter how well run a business is, external events, such as an economic downturn or increased competition may mean that it encounters financial difficulty and stakeholders need access to experienced, pragmatic specialist advice.
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Dominic Offord | Partner, Head of Commercial Dispute Resolution
Legal 500The team is extremely knowledgeable and strategic, particularly in relation to complex litigation or investigations.
2025
Our team advises directors, lenders and creditors on a full range of contentious and non-contentious matters encountered when a business experiences financial distress.
We have long experience in advising boards of directors on their duties and responsibilities when their business experiences the shadow of insolvency. We assist in devising plans to turnaround the business, ensuring that the board members act responsibly and reasonably, mitigate personal risk should the business fail.
We regularly act for creditors and insolvency officeholders in pursuing claims and acting on the sale of business and assets. We also will guide potential purchasers on the acquisition of business and/or assets from insolvency officeholders.
We represent directors should disqualification proceedings be brought and in defending claims that maybe brought against them.
Our clients value our reputation for taking a creative, timely and commercial approach to achieve the best outcome for them underpinned by expert legal analysis. We advise across a broad range of industry sectors, but have particular experience within the Retail & Leisure and Real Estate sectors.
No matter your needs, we've got you covered. Below is a selection of services we offer to help keep you moving forward.
Major retail and hospitality restructuring, including advising the administrators of HMV and stakeholders representation in the insolvencies of House of Fraser, Debenhams and Travelodge.
Restaurant work has included representation for Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, Big Groupe/Big Fernand, Park Chinois, Modern Pantry and Hummingbird Bakery.
Acting for the joint liquidators of a group of solar panel companies in investigating antecedent transactions.
Acting for a liquidator in obtaining sizeable recoveries from a former director, who had transferred personal and company assets.
Acting for retail clients in devising schemes to restructure their property portfolios, including informal negotiation and the use of formal process, such as CVAs.
Representation of the administrators of Ripley's Believe it or Not on a leasehold dispute in connection with the former Trocadero site.
The tactical use of court receivership in the UK's longest running divorce and child maintenance case.
Advising the directors of high profile national restaurant chain undergoing a programme of change, involving both equity and debt reconstruction.
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