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Blake Lapthorn' Insolvency and Business Recovery team is one of the largest of its kind in the country, and provides a complete legal service to all those affected by insolvency, bringing together several of the recognised leading experts in the area. Clients include public and private companies, banks and other providers of finance, public and local authorities, insolvency practitioners and other professional firms. Blake Lapthorn is committed to providing prompt and practical advice to clients.

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The firm's Insolvency and Business Recovery team combines the best in contentious and non-contentious insolvency lawyers. It includes a licensed insolvency practitioner and an arbitrator. It brings together solicitors skilled in all aspects of insolvency and business recovery work who have knowledge and experience in a variety of disciplines including banking and commercial finance, property, litigation, intellectual property and taxation, with particular experience of the construction, food and marine industries.They are able to offer the full range of services within one team.

The team is regularly instructed by insolvency practitioners in relation to all types of corporate and individual insolvency procedures and has a solid reputation for effectively pursuing claims-based recoveries.They also advise companies and individuals about their financial problems and are becoming increasingly involved in business rescues and turnarounds.They advise directors of insolvent companies as to their duties and responsibilities and deal with disqualification applications. Frequently, they are consulted by creditors as to their rights and remedies.They also act for clients on the purchase of businesses and assets from insolvency practitioners. In addition to pure insolvency work, the Insolvency and Business Recovery team has considerable expertise in company reorganisations and solvent liquidations.The team at Blake Lapthorn believe in developing close relationships with their clients and taking time to understand their commercial objectives.As part of the service to their clients, they provide seminars and briefings on a broad range of commercial and legal issues.