Buying and Selling Insolvent Companies and Businesses

Buying and Selling Insolvent Companies and Businesses aims to be a comprehensive guide to its readers, being useful to insolvency practitioners and other professionals involved in insolvency, including lawyers, accountants, company directors and company secretaries. It is also of use to potential investors and their advisers as well as being of interest to students who may wish to specialise in insolvency.

The new third edition has been updated to include:
- Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 which brought in a new moratorium procedure and restructuring plan as permanent measures in response to COVID-19
- the impact of Brexit on insolvency laws
- the impact of the significant rise in the use of company voluntary arrangements
- the new Pensions bill, which will have an impact on advisors to insolvent companies

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.

List of contents

1 What is Corporate Insolvency?
2 Pre-pack Administrations;
3 Purchasing Vehicles and Insolvency Act 1986, s 216;
4 Due Diligence;
5 Raising Funds;
6 Secured Creditors;
7 Goodwill, Intellectual Property Rights and Data Protection Act Issues;
8 Excluded Assets;
9 Employees;
10 Pension Schemes;
11 How to Deal with Existing Customers and Work in Progress;
12 How to Deal with Suppliers;
13 Leasehold Premises

About the author

Ken Titchen has been a solicitor for over 19 years, and he has dealt with almost every aspect of restructuring and insolvency in his career. He joined Gateley LLP in London in 2011, after spending most of his career with another national law firm. Ken carries out mostly non-contentious assignments in the UK and, together with professionals in other jurisdictions, across Europe and the United States. Ken represents lenders and insolvency practitioners, boards of directors, turnaround professionals and other stakeholders in distressed businesses, and he has recently been involved in assisting major clearing banks and insolvency practitioners in several high profile UK restructurings.

Ken has written a number of articles and legal updates, and is a regular speaker on restructuring and insolvency related topics at training seminars and conferences, whether they are local, national or international events. Ken is a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3), the Insolvency Lawyers Association and INSOL Europe, and he works closely with colleagues who are members of the Turnaround Management Association (UK) and the Institute for Turnaround. Ken is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner (non appointment taking).
Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London commercial firm of solicitors, Singletons (www.singlelaw.com) which advises a large range of UK and international clients on business law with particular emphasis on commercial, IT/IP, corporate, data protection, competition law and contracts including some litigation. Author of 33 law books and contributor to 52 more, she writes regularly on legal matters for a variety of publications. She has given about 1700 legal courses/lectures since 1990 in 16 countries i.e. in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Dubai, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Turkey. She publishes nine subscription legal newsletters acquired from Informa including - IT Law Today, Corporate Briefing, Pensions Today and Finance and Credit Law. She practised first at London law firms Slaughter and May and Bristows before founding her own firm in 1994. She sat on the Direct Marketing Authority for 5 years and was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association. In 2020 she was one of the Society of Computers and Law Female Tech Law Heroes. A mother of five (her daughters both qualified as solicitors in 2011/12, her oldest son avoided the law and her twin sons are due to qualify as solicitors in 2024) in her spare time she plays the piano, sings and tends her garden. She has three grandchildren. She is past Chairman of Pinner Hill Residents Association and until recently enjoyed her own island in Panama. She can be followed on twitter at singlelaw.

Summary

Buying and Selling Insolvent Companies and Businesses aims to be a comprehensive guide to its readers, being useful to insolvency practitioners and other professionals involved in insolvency, including lawyers, accountants, company directors and company secretaries. It is also of use to potential investors and their advisers as well as being of interest to students who may wish to specialise in insolvency.

The new third edition has been updated to include:
- Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 which brought in a new moratorium procedure and restructuring plan as permanent measures in response to COVID-19
- the impact of Brexit on insolvency laws
- the impact of the significant rise in the use of company voluntary arrangements
- the new Pensions bill, which will have an impact on advisors to insolvent companies

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law and Insolvency Law online services.

Foreword

A practical legal guide to the sale and purchase of insolvent companies and businesses.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Singleton, Singleton Susan, Ken Titchen, Titchen Ken
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781526519085
• ISBN: 978-1-5265-1908-5
• No. of pages: 520
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 248 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 860 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, LAW / Bankruptcy & Insolvency, Company law, Bankruptcy & Insolvency, Bankruptcy and insolvency, Wales / Cymru