Howard Kennedy LLP
‘A good and reliable team in the finance and insolvency sphere’, Howard Kennedy LLP combines ’intellectual rigour and commercial practicality’ on behalf of office holders, directors, lenders and creditors engaged in contentious and non-contentious matters. Team head Vernon Dennis ‘maintains an incredible focus on current and future issues’ and ’delivers results’ for IPs, particularly on matters within the retail and real estate sectors. Tim Bignell is ‘a strategic thinker who has unrivalled experience in the insolvency field’, and alongside Dominic Offord excels at handling insolvency litigation.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The team I have been working with most recently represents the best mix of terrifying intellectual rigour and commercial practicality that I have come across.'
- 'A good and reliable team in the finance and insolvency sphere.'
- ‘Vernon Dennis is a very experienced litigator who is a safe pair of hands for insolvency practitioners to instruct - he delivers results.’
‘Vernon Dennis is one of the most forward thinking insolvency lawyers in the sector and maintains an incredible focus on current and future issues.’
‘Tim Bignell is a strategic thinker who has unrivalled experience in the insolvency field.’
'Litigator Dominic Offord is among the best in the business when it comes to getting the very best results for the firm's clients.'
‘Rachel Brown well is solid and will no doubt make partner at some point. Lovely to work with, gets good work/client's and knows what she is talking about/doing.’
Key clients
- WSL-Cyan Limited and Wilton Secured Lending Limited
- Begbies Traynor
- FRP
- Moorfields
- ECA Procurement Services Limited
- Crowe
- Evelyn Partners
- MacIntyre Hudson
Work highlights
- Acting for Begbies Traynor as the administrator in the pre-pack sale of the Ping Pong restaurants business, which included 7 central London leasehold sites and the transfer of all staff.
- Acting for Milstead Langdon as liquidators of Onestopmoneymanager Ltd and Merchant Optimisation Services Ltd regarding the treatment of surplus monies that have proved incapable of being returned to the original merchants who used these payment service provider platforms.
- Acting for Moorfields as the administrator of Select Fashion in effecting the management buy-out of the business and assets by means of a pre-pack sale, with the new company taking on a portfolio of 115 stores and the TUPE transfer of all staff at the stores and head office.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Vernon Dennis