Insolvency Services

Your Partner in Litigation against Insolvency Practitioners

Our insolvency solicitors are experienced in acting against Insolvency Practitioners and the Insolvency Service on behalf of company directors, former directors, shareholders, creditors as well as individuals or companies who have received funds, assets or property from a company prior to the company’s insolvency.

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Our focus is on acting against Insolvency Practitioners who seek to bring a claim against an individual or a company. We are instructed in disputes involving a wide variety of Insolvency Practitioners, ranging from niche UK based firms to international Insolvency Practitioners. Regularly acting in disputes against the leading Insolvency Practitioners provides us with the experience and knowledge of how best to successfully resolve or win a dispute.

It is important that, where appropriate, we work collaboratively with Insolvency Practitioners to facilitate smooth resolutions and ensure compliance with all legal requirements. We are able to leverage our knowledge and experience of acting against a wide range of Insolvency Practitioners for the benefit of each client.

Our work against Insolvency Practitioners encompasses many issues. We act in cases involving outstanding director loan accounts, preference payments, illegal dividend payments as well as allegations of wrongful or fraudulent trading.

Additionally, we represent clients in areas such as transactions at undervalue, disposals allegedly intended to keep assets out of creditors' reach and breaches of fiduciary duties, including director disqualification proceedings.

A full list of insolvency services we provide to our clients is detailed below.

Insolvency Service Investigations

Insolvency Interviews

Director Disqualification

Wrongful or Fraudulent Trading

Bankruptcy Petitions

Insolvency Disputes

Claims Against Company Directors

Winding Up Petitions

Statutory Demands

Retention of Title Clauses

Company Administration

Company Restoration

Creditors Voluntary Liquidation (CVL)

Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA)

Re-use of Company Names

Compulsory Liquidation

Pre-Pack Administration

Asset Tracing & Asset Recovery

News & Insights

Director Disqualification, Insolvency, Regulatory

Company Director Avoids Director Disqualification Proceedings After Insolvency Service Bounce Back Loan Investigation

KANGS has successfully represented our client, a former director of a liquidated hotel business, avoid Director Disqualification Proceedings under the Company Director’s Disqualification Act 1986, which sought to remove him from his role as company director. Nazaqat Maqsoom of KANGS outlines the circumstances leading to the investigation conducted by the Insolvency Service. The Circumstances of […]

02/10/25

Director Disqualification, Insolvency, Regulatory

Director Disqualification Proceedings | Why Company Directors May Use Voluntary Undertakings

Director disqualification, as set out in the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (‘the Act’), serves to protect the public interest by preventing further misconduct on the part of an offending director. It does so by imposing a period during which the individual is disqualified from holding any office within a corporate body. Whilst the vast […]

22/09/25

Financial Investigations, Insolvency, Tax & HMRC

Company Director Loans, Disguised Remuneration Schemes & Loan Write-off Implications

A company director loan refers either to money lent to the company, for example, to support its cashflow during a difficult period, or money taken from the company by one or more directors by way of loan. This article focuses on money taken from the company by way of loan, which is perfectly legal provided […]

10/09/25