INSOLVENCY LITIGATION

Mark Hastings has significant expertise in most aspects of corporate and personal insolvency including rescue and recovery work, voluntary arrangements, directors’ duties and liabilities and bankruptcy. He is also highly experienced in proceedings seeking the recovery of assets.

Mark is familiar with corporate insolvencies including administrations, receiverships and liquidations, where he can assist in acting for administrators, the insolvent company, directors and interested parties, including banks. Mark acted in several matters in the Insolvency and Companies List arising from the high profile collapse of London Capital & Finance plc. These include Re London Oil & Gas [2019] EWHC 3675, which concerned a protocol for the handling of privileged information by administrators.

Mark also has particular expertise in deceased insolvent estates, having acted in relation to several complex issues and claims following the death of the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

Mark is highly experienced in proceedings seeking the recovery of assets. That includes proceedings advising or contesting findings by court-appointed receivers and administrators and liquidators, for example about proprietary claims made to substantial assets.