Insolvency and recoveries

The insolvency and recoveries teams at Harrison Clark are able to deal with the whole range of issues that can arise when insolvency occurs in a quick, efficient and cost-effective manner. Whether you are an individual, a company or an insolvency practitioner and whether you are having difficulties yourself, or with a customer / supplier or whether you need investment; the team can help.

Our services

  • Transactional work
  • Appointment advice
  • Anti-avoidance/asset realisation litigation
  • Retention of title issues
  • Security validation advice
  • Rent/business rates liability in administration and liquidation
  • Director disqualification proceedings
  • Contested statutory demands and petitions
  • Company restorations
  • Debt recovery
  • Fund raising

At Harrison Clark we have a wealth of expertise in corporate insolvency situations and are happy to assist with all issues including those arising in administrations, receiverships, liquidations and company voluntary arrangements.

We also provide advice and assistance with issues which arise outside of, or prior to, such formal procedures, including debt restructuring.

We assist with issues facing directors of companies which are in financial difficulties, such as personal guarantees, wrongful trading, disqualification proceedings and unlawful transactions.

Our expertise also includes a strong element of personal insolvency matters and we will deal with all issues arising in bankruptcy, or in trying to avoid bankruptcy, for example by an individual voluntary arrangement.


Why Harrison Clark?

We have a dedicated fee-earner team at Harrison Clark dealing solely with insolvency related matters who are able to offer specialist insolvency advice to individuals, companies, office-holders, directors, creditors, large education establishments, banks and insolvency practitioners.

The team at Harrison Clark has years of experience and has built up a comprehensive contact base over a range of industries and sectors including a variety of institutions. This means that we are ideally positioned to be able to review the specific circumstances of each individual and company to offer the appropriate pragmatic solution to their issues.

We have built up expertise in the area of defending antecedent transaction claims brought against spouses of bankrupts following the settlement of matrimonial issues, having successfully defended claims brought against Mrs Haines in the leading case of Hill & another v Haines [2007] EWCA Civ 1284.

The team also deals with large scale debt recovery work and offers an exemplary service to corporate clients and institutions.


Harrison Clark is a "City-type firm for a provincial price", and has a well regarded team. - The Legal 500, 2011

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Jon Whitbread
CHELTENHAM

Jon Whitbread

Insolvency Partner

Cheltenham T. 01242 216175

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Jason Newbold
WORCESTER

Jason Newbold

Head of Recoveries

Worcester T. 01905 744835

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Appointments are also available at our other offices
Hereford T. 01432 267928 and Ross-On-Wye T. 01989 562377

other contacts

Dan Cambridge

Partner

Worcester T. 01905 744847

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