Corporate Insolvency Practice

Recent years have seen extensive changes to insolvency practice, precedents, and procedures. Fully updated, Corporate Insolvency Practice is the only comprehensive “how to do it” guide for solicitors and barristers to all the most common court applications in corporate insolvency. 

Covering areas as diverse as winding up petitions to administrations to the reuse of company names, this practical and accessible book seeks to give the inside track on what the court will expect both in terms of practice and evidence. It also provides the busy practitioner with the key statutory and practice material for each application as well as sample precedents to illustrate what the finished application notice, order or witness statement might look like.

Packed with precedents, forms, checklists and statutory extracts, Corporate Insolvency Practice ensures you have readily to hand everything you need to prepare and present the most common insolvency applications. The new edition of this title will be an invaluable reference for all practitioners making insolvency applications in the Companies Court:

·      deals with the new Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016, the Practice Direction on    Insolvency Proceedings 2023 and the new 2025 fees

·      includes an extensive range of precedents

·      contains the relevant statutory and practice direction extracts; and

·      provides a ‘how to do it’ guide with checklists and new forms.

Author Biography

Professor Mark Watson-Gandy OBE is a tenant at Three Stone Chambers, a specialist commercial chancery barristers’ chambers in Lincoln’s Inn. He is a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Westminster and Lorraine.