About

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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

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Restructuring/Insolvency - East Anglia

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What the Team is Known For

Birketts has a leading team in East Anglia that is known for its restructuring work in property and construction, among other sectors. It is also noted for its experience advising on contentious insolvency matters. It has additional strength in advising on group insolvencies.

Work Highlights

  • Birketts advised Begbies Traynor as administrators on the £500,000 sale of assets and the business Suregreen Limited to a trade purchaser.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Laurence Weeks
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Laurence Weeks
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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.

Laurence is a highly technical individual. He is very good in the details and in tight timelines.

Laurence has very good knowledge of the client situation and is commercially astute in recognising the client's needs.

Laurence provides excellent advice and a strategic approach.

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Matthew Weston
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Matthew Weston is a well-regarded insolvency litigator who is based in the firm's Chelmsford office. He has good experience working with both administrators and purchasers on insolvency M&A transactions.

Matthew has the experience to approach matters with conviction.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Laurence Weeks
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Laurence Weeks
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Matthew Weston
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