Jake Holmes

Jake is a Legal Director working in both the Banking & Finance team and the Business Support & Insolvency team based in Reading.

Main areas of practice

• Jake advises insolvency practitioners, banks, landlords and creditors, as well as the directors and owners of distressed businesses on all aspects of corporate restructuring and insolvency.
• He is regularly instructed in relation to claims for and against insolvency practitioners, including preference claims, transaction at undervalue claims, transactions to defraud creditors claims, misfeasance claims, unlawful dividends claims, director’s loan account claims and use of officeholders’ investigatory powers.
• Jake has particular expertise in issuing and defending statutory demands, bankruptcy and winding-up petitions.

Jake mainly acts for insolvency practitioners acting as trustee in bankruptcy in relation to bankrupt estates or as administrators or liquidators of insolvent companies.

Banking & Finance

Jake has experience in acquisition finance, property finance and asset finance. He advises banks, corporate and individual investors and other institutional lenders and borrowers across a variety of sectors. Jake is responsible for drafting and reviewing facility documentation, negotiating security, preparing sale and purchase agreements and undertaking complex security reviews.

Clients

Jake assists the team in advising banks, other institutional lenders and borrowers.

Expertise

• Banking & Finance
• Insolvency

Career

Having originally worked at a large City firm, Jake joined Blake Morgan in September 2013 where he later qualified as a solicitor. He was promoted to Senior Associate in July 2022.