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In uncertain times, every business will face challenges including financial distress or difficulty. Our team provides commercial, strategic advice to a wide variety of clients from lenders to insolvency practitioners to company directors to creditors and other stakeholders.
We regularly advise companies who are facing administration orders, liquidation, receiverships and winding up petitions. We also have experience in advising on asset recovery and setting aside transactions (i.e. those made at an undervalue or designed to defraud creditors).
We regularly work alongside licenses insolvency practitioners appointed by creditors or the directors of a company in financial distress undertaking both contentious and non-contentious work.
Our experience includes:
- Winding up petitions
- Misfeasance
- Preferences
- Overdrawn directors’ loan accounts
- Directors facing claims under the Insolvency Act
- Transactions at undervalue
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Protecting your business interests requires specialist expertise and a genuine understanding of your commercial objectives. At Payne Hicks Beach, our experienced litigators are dedicated to resolving disputes efficiently, safeguarding your reputation, and securing the outcome your business deserves — while ensuring your position is robustly defended at every stage.
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Why Choose Payne Hicks Beach for Commercial Disputes & Litigation?
We are generally conflict free, meaning we are normally able to act against major banks and institutions.
We have a skilled and dedicated team led by six partners (including those with a background in the City).
We work in small partner-led teams to ensure that we deliver the best service to our clients in the most cost-efficient manner.
We are used to being instructed on an urgent basis, particularly when injunctive relief is sought.
We can efficiently assemble high quality multi-disciplinary teams of experts including barristers, forensic accountants, investigators and public relations firms to assist our clients. We also have long-established and close connections with market-leading overseas law firms.
Our lawyers are also experts in the funding of claims and can advise on the various options available.
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