Allana Sweeney

Director, Burness Paull

Allana is a specialist in insolvency law accredited with the Law Society of Scotland and is ranked in Legal 500 as a ‘Rising Star’ and in Chambers & Partners as an ‘Associate to Watch’. She has over 12 years of experience specialising in all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency and restructuring and recovery work including: debt restructurings, pre-pack administrations, advising boards of distressed entities, security enforcement and enhancement, standstill and settlement arrangements, insolvent business and asset sales / acquisitions, contentious IP appointments and jurisdictional issues. Recent assignments have covered a number of sectors including bio power/energy, hospitality and leisure, retail, shipbuilding, real estate and professional firms.

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Scotland—can a liquidator use section 127 of the Insolvency Act 1986 to treat post-petition transfers as

Q&A

This Q&A considers the position in Scotland as to whether a liquidator can use section 27 of the Insolvency Act 1986 to treat post-winding-up petition transfers as void where there is an intervening administration after presentation of the winding-up petition.

Restructuring & Insolvency