Specialising in charity and independent school insolvency issues, VWV is well suited to assist a range of insolvency practitioners, individuals, businesses, and organisations with corporate and personal insolvency issues. Recently, the firm has seen a number of high-value cases relating to antecedent transactions and breach of director duty claims, in addition to cases of potential personal liability. Based in Bristol, Ed Husband leads the insolvency and restructuring team, alongside the commercial litigation team. Having joined in 2023, insolvency litigation expert Lisa Cooke brings additional experience representing office holders looking to bring claims.
Testimonials
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‘The team has very good technical insolvency knowledge and a good sector knowledge.’
‘Ed Husband provides the perfect mix of legal know-how and pragmatic commerciality. His efficient and targeted approach to pre-action investigations reduces risk from the outset. He has great intuition for how much a claim is worth, and how hard it will need to be fought.’
‘The individuals I work with are very personable, knowledgeable and commercial.’
‘The key strength of VWV is in its depth of knowledge and quality of legal analysis. The individuals with whom I have worked are meticulous, thoughtful, thorough and very intelligent.’
‘Lisa Cooke is superb. She is also very commercially minded and incredibly easy to work with.’
‘VWV have enjoyed an established team in Bristol for many years, headed up by Ed Husband. Having worked on a wide variety of cases with Ed, we have developed a valuable rapport; with the team being further boosted more recently by the addition of Lisa Cooke, the assistance provided is always technically competent, whilst commercially realistic. A team you can trust.’
Key clients
- Begbies Traynor
- Mazars
- Evelyn Partners
- Leonard Curtis Recovery Limited
- Airbus
- PKF Francis Clark
- Quantuma
- SFP
- Bryt Energy Ltd
- Undebt
Work highlights
- Advised Begbies Traynor as liquidators of three associated companies in respect of numerous antecedent transactions and breach of duty claims against the directors and third parties. The value of the combined aggregate claims was in excess of £3.5m.
- Instructed by eight directors (of a group of construction companies, Dawnus, in administration) to advise in respect of threatened misfeasance claims being brought against them by the administrators.
- Advised an independent school in North Wales on its restructuring.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Ed Husband