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Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: Liberty Leasing Ltd (Liberty) successfully challenged, under rule 15.35 of the Insolvency (England and Wales)...
The Insolvency Service has announced that Garry Pettigrew, former director of Healthcare Environmental Services Limited, has been disqualified from...
Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: This judgment considers when a creditors’ voluntary liquidation may be converted into a compulsory liquidation,...
This week's edition of Restructuring & Insolvency weekly highlights includes: an analysis of the High Court’s decision to set aside an order...
Role, powers, functions and duties of a liquidatorThe role and function of a liquidatorA liquidator is the officer appointed when a company goes into...
Bonds and notesThe terms ‘bonds’ and ‘notes’ are used interchangeably (and there is no legal difference between the terms), though notes tend to be...
Bankruptcy searchesBankruptcy searches at the Land Charges DepartmentWhen a bankruptcy petition is presented by a creditor, the court shall as soon as...
Basic introduction to super senior, senior, mezzanine and junior debtThe range of funding options open to companies has exploded, resulting in a vast...
The effect of insolvency on guaranteesWhat is a guarantee?A guarantee is an agreement between one person/entity (the guarantor) and another person/entity (the creditor), whereby the guarantor agrees to answer for the liability of another party (the principal).For a guarantee to be valid, it must be
How to serve a demand for paymentA demand for payment is a formal demand made in accordance with the contractual requirements underpinning the liability which the party issuing the demand is seeking to enforce.A demand will be necessary where the contract which exists between the parties requires a
Insolvency searches for companies at the Central RegistryWhat is the Central Registry of Winding-up Petitions?The Central Registry of Winding-up Petitions (the Central Registry) is a computerised register of winding-up petitions and administration applications which is maintained for all petitions
Late payment penalties—inheritance taxWhile interest often accrues on overdue tax, the late payment of certain taxes may also attract a penalty. For information on the interest accruing on overdue tax, see Practice Notes: IHT—payment deadlines on death—Interest on IHT and Interest on late paid
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