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Restriction on re-use of company names

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The Insolvency Act 1986 restricts the re-use of a company name (for five years) where, in the 12 months preceding insolvency, any director or shadow director of an insolvent company is involved in the successor company. In this article for Lexis+ UK, Jake Eddison-Cook discusses:   – Offence of re-using company name without permission.– Who […]

Keith Oliver

Peters & Peters contributes chapter to CDR: Essential Intelligence – Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery 2024

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Head of International Keith Oliver and Legal Researcher Caroline Timoney have contributed a chapter to CDR: Essential Intelligence – Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery 2024, which has just come out. The guide offers an update on the legislative, regulatory and enforcement developments across 17 key jurisdictions, as well as expertise on current trends and issues […]

Paul Johnson

Key questions for IPs to ask funders

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The monthly insolvency statistics for October 2022 (published by the Insolvency Service in November) show that corporate insolvencies have risen 38% from the same month in the previous year and are 32% higher than pre-pandemic. Insolvency practitioners, lawyers and advisers are therefore gearing up for further rises in insolvencies as the economic climate is expected […]

‘More case law to come’ after BTI v Sequana judgment

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As Lord Reed recognised, the appeal before the Supreme Court on the case of BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana S.A. & Others raised questions of considerable importance for company law. The issue was whether the trigger for the directors’ duty to consider creditors is merely a real risk of – as opposed to a profitability […]