Many insolvency practices value the timely, commercial, pragmatic and accurate advice we provide.

Stephens Scown has established strong and longstanding links with restructuring and insolvency practices, and we’ve worked closely with them on a wide range of complex issues, including:

• cross-border insolvency issues
• disputes on proofs of debt or validity of security
• practice and professional issues such as complaints to regulatory bodies, disputes about remuneration and expenses, or retirements and replacements of office-holders
• carrying out statutory and professional duties including investigation of transactions and directors’ conduct, and obtaining information from third parties.

We’re also widely experienced in:

• sales of assets by insolvency practitioners
• challenges to appointments
• introducing expertise from other specialist teams in the firm, such as construction, IP/IT and employment
• choosing the best-suited insolvency processes, and implementing them
• sounding out strategies to assess their pros and cons.