Benefitting from strong core insolvency expertise and also able to leverage experts in the litigation, real estate and banking teams, Howard Kennedy LLP‘s ’very well integrated and collegiate’ offering provides ‘knowledgeable and strategic’ advice to IPs, creditors and debtors. Team head Vernon Dennis is an ’excellent strategist’ and excels in board advisory work for distressed companies within the retail and hospitality sectors. The ‘extremely knowledgeable and personable’ Dominic Offord and Rachel Brown, who has ’strong technical insolvency knowledge’, excel at handling contentious insolvency matters.
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Testimonials
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- 'The team is very well integrated and collegiate.'
- 'The team is extremely knowledgeable and strategic, particularly in relation to complex litigation or investigations.'
- 'They have good strategic and technical knowledge.'
- 'Vernon Dennis is an excellent strategist who is always one step ahead of the industry as a whole.'
- 'Dominic Offord is extremely knowledgeable and personable. He can grasp extremely complex matters and distil them to their key legal components and then provide commercially appropriate advice so that those matters can be progressed effectively.'
- 'Rachel Brown is a top-notch lawyer who excels in providing tailored solutions.'
Key clients
- Grant Thornton
- Begbies Traynor
- Moorfields
- Crowe
- Milstead Langdon
- FRP
- BDO
- Kroll
- Resolve
Work highlights
- Acting for the liquidators of the Tonstate Group which had been involved in a circa £500m property investment.
- Acting for the liquidators of the Cambridge Analytica Group in the ongoing insolvency process following the Cambridge Analytica Brexit scandal that was revealed in 2018.
- Acting for the supervisors of the flexible office letting company Business Environment Group, which has entered into interconnected CVAs.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Vernon Dennis