Insolvency & Restructuring

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When businesses face financial stress, the right legal advice can make the difference between recovery and collapse. At Asserson, we help clients manage challenges with clarity, creativity, and commercial focus.

Our Insolvency & Restructuring practice supports companies, directors, creditors, and investors across the full spectrum of financial distress. From proactive restructuring to contentious insolvency disputes, we deliver practical solutions that protect value and reputation.

Our Services

• Advising directors on duties and personal exposure
  
• Restructuring and turnaround planning
  
• Creditors’ recovery strategies and enforcement
  
• Cross-border insolvency matters for international clients
  
• Fraud, mis-selling and mismanagement claims linked to insolvency
  
• Acting in insolvency-related litigation, mediation and arbitration

Track Record

• Defending directors in claims concerning £6m of disputed trust funds (Haysport & Twinsectra v Ackerman).
  
• Acting in financial mis-selling claims against major UK banks, including London Executive Aviation v RBS and Ability Hotels v Barclays.
  
• Successfully reducing a substantial solicitors’ bill relating to insolvency work (Isadore Goldman v Ackerman).

Defending a director in £100m fraud litigation connected to insolvency proceedings (Group Seven Ltd v Louanjli).