In the dynamic world of insolvency and corporate recovery, the busy practitioner often has to seek specialist legal advice. Our insolvency team provides a full range of services and can draw on specialist lawyers from other teams’ disciplines where appropriate. All our lawyers are familiar with insolvency concepts and the unique needs of the Insolvency Practitioner.

We can assist with the following:

• Administration
• Advice to directors of financially distressed companies
• Investor and Lender security
• Advice to Creditors on insolvency and retention of title issues
• Insolvency related litigation and dispute resolution on behalf of office holders
• Constructive trusts and tracing claims
• Corporate restructuring, reorganisation and turnaround
• Cross-border insolvency
• Debt recovery, collect-outs
• Debt rescheduling and recovery
• Disposals
• Employment issues in an insolvency context
• International asset recovery
• Liquidation
• Property insolvency issues
• Receivership and administrative receivership
• Advice on Policy issues

Conditional Fee arrangement

Berry Smith offers a service to Insolvency Practitioners which enables them to pursue claims with minimal cost and risk using a combination of initial no-cost review and advice, conditional fee agreements and adverse cost insurance.