Our first aim when a company gets into financial difficulty is to assess its viability and to identify what needs to be done to return it to profit. We are very aware that temporary cash flow problems can often hide a genuinely profitable business.

A business turnaround or workout requires a clear strategy and determined objectives. Retaining the business infrastructure may be key to future viability and our team will guide you through informal, as well as formal turnaround and insolvency processes. If required, we can obtain protection from creditor claims to enable proposals for restructuring and refinancing to be put into place. Where there is no alternative other than to cease trading immediately, we can advise on procedures to place the company into liquidation.

We will consider, with you, the options of:

• Administrations - a company in difficulties, but which has some hope of recovery, may be put into the charge of a legally-appointed administrator. Taking on the role of administrator, Mercer & Hole’s Insolvency Practitioners are able to take compulsory control of the business to rescue, liquidate, or dissolve it effectively.

• Company voluntary arrangements (CVA) – Mercer & Hole’s Licensed Insolvency Practitioners can help a company to survive through a formal insolvency procedure by executing a CVA, whereby a plan of reorganisation and composition in satisfaction of its debts is put forward to creditors and shareholders.

• International and cross-border issues – when insolvency threatens, you must assess the values and risks of these foreign connections, and the UK and international laws and practices that apply to them. Specialist advice is essential, which we can provide either directly, or through Mercer & Hole’s international network of insolvency professionals, accountants (TIAG) and lawyers (TAGLaw).

• Liquidations - where companies have no alternative other than ceasing trading immediately, we can advise on procedures to place a company into liquidation and minimise the impact of the company’s cessation on the directors.

• Turnarounds - as both chartered accountants and insolvency practitioners Mercer & Hole’s experience of financial crisis – knowing what can and cannot be done – and our access to specialist funding sources, gives us an additional perspective enabling us to evaluate and support a distressed company’s turnaround plan.

• Corporate finance - Mercer & Hole’s knowledge and contact with lenders, banks and other financial institutions enable us to introduce the right type and level of financing to meet business requirements for the short, medium and long term. This includes traditional overdraft and bank loan facilities, as well as asset based finance, invoice discounting, factoring and commercial mortgages.

Restructuring & Insolvency partners:

Steve Smith
Partner
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Peter Godfrey-Evans
Partner
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Chris Laughton
Partner
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Contact us:

Call 0845 603 6253 to speak with one of our Licensed Insolvency Practitioners or alternatively you can email us.

The Restructuring & Insolvency team have considerable experience and strong reputations for dealing expertly with a wide variety of insolvency issues. We specialise in rescuing businesses through operational turnaround and financial restructuring, and through the constructive use of formal insolvency procedures. We can deliver and implement a restructuring solution, which will not only get the business back on track, but will provide real improvements to cash flow, profit and the business’s net worth.

Mercer & Hole have offices in London, St Albans, Milton Keynes and Northampton.