Insolvency

Kirsty has a busy insolvency practice and deals with all aspects of both corporate and personal insolvency. She has experience in a range of Insolvency Act applications and is often instructed to draft the same. Kirsty regularly represents office holders, creditors and debtors in both routine and contested matters, including:

• Winding up and bankruptcy petitions
• Applications to annul bankruptcies and set aside statutory demands
• Injunctions to restrain presentation of winding up petitions
• Claims against directors
• Applications for possession and sale
• Applications for administration orders and extension of administrations

Recent insolvency work Kirsty has undertaken includes:

• Drafting a winding-up petition against a foreign registered company and an application for permission to serve this out of the jurisdiction.
• Acting on behalf of two debtors who had provided personal guarantees and were residing outside of the jurisdiction when served with statutory demands.
• Representing a liquidator in a preference and misfeasance claim against a company director who had misused a covid grant.
• Successfully opposing an application to rescind a winding-up order.