About
Provided by Birketts LLP
Birketts’ Restructuring and Insolvency Team advises on all issues arising from corporate and personal distress.
Formal insolvencies:
- Administrations
- Receiverships
- Liquidations
- Pre-packs
- Bankruptcies (winding-up petitions)
- Advising insolvency practitioners
- Advising lenders
- Advising creditors
- All forms of insolvency litigation and dispute resolution
- Solvent liquidations (members’ voluntary liquidation)
Restructuring:
- Refinancing
- Debt and equity restructuring
- Debt for equity swaps
- Voluntary arrangements
- Asset disposals / acquisitions
- Work-outs and turnarounds
- Tax considerations
Chambers Review
Birketts has a leading team in East Anglia known for its restructuring work in sectors including property and construction. The firm is also noted for its experience advising on contentious insolvency matters. It has additional strength in advising on group insolvencies.
Work Highlights
- Birketts acted for CVR Global as administrators of a wine-selling company, in the pre-pack sale of the business's assets to another wine retailer.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Birketts is one of the local premier firms."
"Birketts is one of the local premier firms."
Notable Practitioners
Cambridge-based Laurence Weeks leads the firm's restructuring and insolvency team. He is a commercial litigator who has extensive experience in insolvency disputes. He handles asset recovery for liquidators, winding-up petitions and high-value administrations.
"There seems to be nothing that Laurence doesn't know. He has a great work ethic."