Restructuring/Insolvency | UK Bar

Enterprise Chambers is a reputable set on the North Eastern Circuit with "great depth of experience and commercial awareness." The set offers expertise in both personal and corporate insolvencies. The members of the Enterprise Chambers team are experienced in handling a broad range of matters, including winding-up petitions, cross-border corporate insolvencies and liquidations. The tenants of the set are noted for their expert handling of cases involving allegations of misfeasance and breach of directors' duties. The chambers acts on behalf of trustees in bankruptcy, company directors, individual debtors and liquidators. This includes recently acting on behalf of the liquidator for Gobbitt & Kirby Lettings Ltd, obtaining a charging order against property held by the company's former director.

Exchange Chambers offers notable restructuring and insolvency expertise in the North East. The set handles work relating to asset tracing and recovery, administrations and bankruptcy. The team also possesses a speciality in handling directors’ disqualification and misfeasance proceedings. The set advised the administrators of Cleveland Bridge UK in an application before the High Court regarding the distribution of £7 million between fixed and floating charges and the administrators' costs.

Kings Chambers houses considerable expertise in a wide range of restructuring and insolvency matters. The members of the chambers are noted by sources as "technically astute" and handle both insolvency litigation and non-contentious matters, and are instructed in director disqualification cases, administrations and liquidations. The additional areas of expertise for the team include cases involving allegations of fraudulent trading and asset recovery matters. Members of the set have recently represented liquidators in a strike-out application against beneficiaries of an alleged trust of land affected by the insolvency of Reeson Holmes Ltd.