Irwin Mitchell

Finance- Restructuring and Insolvency

Kunal has 19 years’ experience in the Restructuring and Insolvency industry, dealing with a broad range of both non-contentious and contentious work, focusing primarily on advisory and transactional work such as:

• Debt restructuring
• Business sales and acquisitions
• Lender security enforcement and enhancement
• Cross-border restructuring & insolvency

 He acts for a mixture of UK clearing banks, UK top 20 accountancy firms, insolvency practitioners, private equity houses, and asset-based lenders. He also works with international clients such as international accountancy firms, foreign and international banks, and foreign law firms. Kunal advises secured lenders on:

• Restructuring and refinancing of distressed loans
• Forbearance
• Standstill and modification agreements
• Undertaking contingency planning
• Strategic advice including in relation to security and risk assessment.

Kunal also has extensive experience dealing with contentious / insolvency litigation matters, including  misfeasance actions and wrongful trading actions, antecedent transaction recoveries, asset recovery and fraud investigations.

 Kunal regularly advises underperforming companies, boards of directors and investor groups on restructuring options and managing key stakeholders, and advises landlord creditors on enforcing their rights and dealing with tenant insolvency.

Kunal joined from Edwin Coe LLP where he was a Junior Equity partner, having joined the firm in 2015. Prior to that he was at Squire Patton Boggs LLP (formerly Hammonds LLP).