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In this article we discuss how HMRC can ‘pierce the corporate veil’ in certain circumstances using Personal Liability Notices which allow Directors and other senior officers of a company to be pursued in their personal capacity. Directors and other senior officers of private limited companies have, for well over a century, enjoyed a considerable level […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Insolvency Service is reportedly considering further actions against directors who have utilised the Atherton Scheme and, this is likely to mean that former directors of other similar schemes will also come under scrutiny. Company directors and other officers have strict duties and obligations to uphold at all times and no more so than when […]

KANGS has a strong and established reputation for representing company directors in investigations and claims initiated by insolvency practitioners. We specialise exclusively in ‘defence work’ within the insolvency sector, meaning we do not accept instructions to represent or provide advice to insolvency practitioners. Insolvency practitioners are individuals who are licensed to advise on and formally […]

The insolvency of a company does not automatically imply misconduct on the part of one or more of its directors. The insolvency could have occurred due to a significant downturn in trade, such as the one experienced by thousands of companies during the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in an unavoidable need to cease trading. Equally, misconduct […]