What is a Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation? Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation (CVL) is the process where the Directors of an insolvent company can voluntarily take steps to wind up the company. The Directors call a meeting of the company’s shareholders to consider resolutions to wind up the company and decide on a decision procedure for creditors to …
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Introduction Independent Business Reviews (IBRs) are often requested by a lending bank when a company looks to be in some form of financial difficulty. They can be viewed by directors as a painful, expensive exercise enforced by the Bank and which can lead to further financial problems. However, there can be a benefit in …
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Introduction There are 2 ways a company can go into liquidation. The first and most common way is voluntarily, by the directors and shareholders – this is known as a Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation (CVL). The second way is a compulsory liquidation and is when a creditor or shareholder files a petition at court to wind …
Administration is a formal insolvency process which places a company under the control of an Insolvency Practitioner and the protection of the court. A ‘Notice of Intention to Appoint’ or ‘Notice of Appointment’ can be filed at court by the Director(s), qualifying floating charge holder, a company, or creditor to commence the process of Administration. …
Directors have a legal duty to ensure that their company is not trading whilst insolvent. But what does “trading insolvent” really mean, and how can it be correctly identified? In this article we provide an overview of the insolvency tests that can be applied to help company directors make an appropriate assessment of the situation. …
If a company is insolvent and needs to be closed then typically the directors and shareholders will decide to take the company into a creditors voluntary liquidation (CVL). Otherwise known simply as “voluntary liquidation” this is where a licenced insolvency practitioner will be appointed as Liquidator (following resolutions passed firstly by shareholders and then by creditors) over the company.
We’re often asked about the difference between Liquidation and Administration and when one should be used over the other. Here we cover the main differences between the two formal insolvency procedures,
Directors often ask if they are allowed to start another company having previously had a business which entered into liquidation, or another insolvency procedure. This article explores the options and potential pitfalls in such a situation. In general terms there is nothing to stop a director from becoming, or continuing to be, a director of …
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Directors of a limited company which has gone into liquidation are prohibited from being involved with companies which use the same, or similar, name in the future unless specific procedures are followed. This is covered under Section 216 of the Insolvency Act and a director needs to carefully consider these before proceeding. What is Section …
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Introduction Since the start of the Coronavirus crisis, the Insolvency Service has been issuing monthly statistics in addition to the usual quarterly reports in order to provide more timely indicators of the impact that COVID-19 is having on insolvencies. Company Insolvencies in July In July 2020 there were 955 company insolvencies in England & Wales, …
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