Claire’s insolvency work covers both contentious and non-contentious advice, involves acting for clients including insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors, SMEs, company directors and individuals. Her work can range from debt recovery in the form of statutory demands, winding up petitions or bankruptcy petitions, through to advising insolvency practitioners or directors during more complex, long-running administrations, liquidations or bankruptcies.

Recent experience

• Acting for a director in an action worth £39m brought by the assignee of the Liquidators’ claim for misfeasance and a claim under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
• Acting for a client who required an urgent application for an injunction to prevent the presentation and advertisement of a winding up petition against a company.
• Acting for office holders in actions against directors, including claims for misfeasance and wrongful trading.
• Acting for office holders in relation to companies which were fraudulent vehicles, formulating claims against directors and connected third parties in order to obtain realisations for the benefit of the creditors.
• Acting for potential office holders in the context of a pre-pack administration to include dealing with the Notice of Intention to appoint administrators, the negotiation of the sale of the business and subsequent appointment of administrators.
• Acting for the Administrators of a company which was the freeholder of a property which experienced a catastrophic fire resulting in the loss of 60+ residential homes. Making an application to Court under the Berkeley Applegate jurisdiction as a result of various insurance funds being held on trust for leaseholders.