Oliver McEntee | Manchester, Leeds & Birmingham

Insolvency

Oliver practices in all areas of insolvency law, including:

• Preference and transaction at an undervalue claims by office holders
• Applications to set aside statutory demands
• Directors’ disqualification/permission proceedings
• Contested winding-up petitions
• Injunctions restraining the presentation of winding up petitions

Recent instructions include:

• Successfully opposing an application under s. 366 of the 1986 Act
• Advising as to the scope of the assets subject to a trust created by an IVA

Reported cases:

• Re Tre Ciccio [2022] Bus LR 165

Oliver also has experience of insolvency practitioner regulation matters. Representative instructions include:

• Successfully obtaining the restoration of a lapsed IPA licence despite the absence of prescribed evidence
• Advising an IPA as to whether to accept a consent order in respect of allegations of impropriety in the conduct of a bankruptcy