Buying and Selling Insolvent Companies and Businesses is a practical legal guide to the sale and purchase of insolvent companies and businesses. It aims to be a comprehensive guide to its readers, being useful to insolvency practitioners and other professionals involved in insolvency, including lawyers, accountants, company directors and company secretaries. It is also of use to potential investors and their advisers as well as being of interest to students who may wish to specialise in insolvency.

Updated to include:

Further consultation on pre-pack administrations resulting in a government statement;
Further decision from the ECJ on where the Centre of Main Interests of a company is, which impacts on whether administration in the UK is available and COMI shifting;
New competition law guidance on mergers and proposed changes to UK merger law when the OFT and Competition Commission merge;
A raft of new cases on how directors appoint administrators;
Goodwill IP rights and data protection - coverage of the new proposed data protection directive and new case law relevant to mergers;
New Court of Appeal authority on employees and clarity as to when TUPE will apply on a business sale by administrators;
New Employment Tribunal authority on employee claims for failure to consult before dismissal;
New Court of Appeal authority on the status of claims by The Pensions Regulator;
Further developments in the treatment of landlords on a restructuring;
New case law on landlords' claims as an expense of administration;
Distressed sales are getting more frequent and sector focused, such as retail, care homes, professional services and there are likely to be further developments.

Previous ISBN: 9781847665423

Ken Titchen is a partner at Gateley. He has wide ranging experience of all aspects of corporate recovery and insolvency with an emphasis on non-contentious matters, together with restructuring and turnaround work. He has advised lenders, insolvency practitioners, companies and directors, creditors and stakeholders for over 16 years, operating across a wide variety of industries and business sectors.

Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London firm, Singletons. Her clients range from major plcs and institutions to small start up businesses. She is author of over 30 law books on topics such as internet and ecommerce law, competition law, commercial agency law, data protection legislation and intellectual property and writes twenty legal articles a month. She is a frequent speaker in the intellectual property, competition and commercial law fields, both in the UK and abroad.