Our team has been involved in a number of high-profile cases in this area. Highlights include:
- advising on the purchase of a Central London hotel as part of the seller’s restructure and exit from administration
- restructuring owners’ interests in freehold and commercial leases in a holiday park to advance a ‘white knight’ investment. This included an inter-dependent purchase of interests from an existing stakeholder’s trustee in bankruptcy, and purchase of the business and assets from administrators of a trading tenant
- advising the administrators appointed to an under-performing shopping centre
- advising partners in the restructuring and refinancing of the land ownership in a farming partnership, following a partner’s bankruptcy
- recovering possession of agricultural equine and development land for receivers to sell
- advising receivers on a residential development and plot sales
- successfully advancing claims for possession for bankruptcy estates
- successfully negotiating the reduction of claims by Trustees in bankruptcy against the family home
- acting for insolvency practitioners appointed over construction companies
- advising administrators on commercial issues arising from the management of a national portfolio of retail premises and serviced offices
- multiple acquisitions of the business and assets from administrators (including licenced premises, construction businesses and a stone mill)