Insolvency

Our team of insolvency lawyers are recognised nationwide for their expertise in both personal and corporate insolvency. Our insolvency solicitors advise insolvency practitioners, funders, debtors, creditors, business stakeholders, and individuals on the management and recovery of debt and assets, providing practical guidance that helps clients achieve effective outcomes.

Combining technical expertise with commercial insight, our team delivers solutions tailored to each client’s needs. Our insolvency lawyers also advise on fraud, proceeds of crime, and criminal confiscation matters, while our bankruptcy specialists offer a dedicated advice line and a fully funded bespoke service for collecting council tax and national non-domestic rates. Across every service, our insolvency solicitors work in partnership with clients, offering clear, practical, and commercially focused support.

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Main areas of practice

Our team of expert insolvency lawyers can assist in the following areas:

For businesses

Our experts frequently provide advice on boardroom and directors' duties, business contingency and exit planning, distressed or accelerated M&A, group reorganisation and solvent schemes, to overseas businesses on UK insolvency law and procedure and debt and asset recovery advice including retention of title issues.

For insolvency practitioners

The team has significant experience in asset, business and property sales including those by auction, as well as undertaking litigation in relation to antecedent transactions and asset recovery options in the UK and abroad, and acting for office holders appointed as receivers under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

For banks and lenders

We regularly provide security reviews coupled with rectification and enhancement advice where necessary, as well as identifying strategies for recovery options and enforcement, and are able to provide specialised advice about real estate restructuring including the appointment of Fixed Charge/LPA Receivers.

For others

We also advise landlords, tenants and guarantors affected by insolvency, undertake council tax and national non-domestic rates recovery work for local authorities, advise suppliers and other stakeholders including franchisors, defend director disqualification claims and provide advice to individuals based overseas on UK insolvency law and procedure.

Our clients

The team has an impressive and varied client base that includes clearing banks, challenger banks, national, regional and local accountancy firms, niche insolvency practitioner firms, turnaround professionals, local authorities and city councils, large corporations, SMEs and individuals.

They are very skilled in restructuring and insolvency matters. They provide clear and commercial advice.
- Legal 500, 2026

All the team we have dealt with at Blake Morgan have been great, they are efficient and clearly work together to provide great service.
- Legal 500, 2026

It is a good team with a desire to build relationships through responsiveness and delivery.
- Chambers and Partners, 2025

The firm has deep insolvency expertise and can react quickly in challenging circumstances.
- Legal 500

Blake Morgan's insolvency and restructuring team have a wealth of technical knowledge and experience, and handle complex and sophisticated matters well.
- Chambers and Partners, 2025

Highlights

Defending a money claim in the Companies Court that also involved injunctions in New York and Rotterdam. There was an allegation of fraud (forged signature) that required the assimilation of substantial witness evidence. The claim was litigated during a six-day trial.

Acting for the buyer of a business that built yachts from a company in administration with a purchase price of £8 million. There were a number of yachts being constructed with contractual terms that needed to be varied without the contracts being terminated or novated. There were significant ROT claims that needed to be addressed as well as issues with the Intellectual Property Rights.

Advising the nominee of an individual voluntary arrangement as to whether a proof of debt for £33 million should be admitted to vote in full or in part and representing the Supervisor in successfully defending a challenge to that decision.