Mark Wilkinson

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Mark is a partner in our Insolvency and Corporate Recovery Team. He has over 20 years' experience in dealing with a broad range of insolvency issues to include contentious and non-contentious matters in the field of both personal and corporate insolvency.

Mark acts for Insolvency Practitioners, Directors, Business owners, stakeholders and creditors. He has a particular interest in credit management and the impact of an insolvency procedure on those that extend credit or have entered into commercial arrangements with the insolvent debtor.

Experience

Acted for Insolvency Practitioners acting as Administrators in arranging their appointment and completing the sale of a national retail business as a going concern
Advising directors on their duties in the run up to an insolvency process
Advising Insolvency Practitioners in their capacity as Liquidators and/or Administrators in pursuing antecedent transactions such as preferences, transactions at undervalue, transaction defrauding creditors, misfeasance and breach of duty
Acted for a creditor in resisting and defeating an application for an Administration Order
Acting for creditors in pursuit of claims against debtors to include winding up proceedings, applications for administration orders and dealing with Retention of Title claims
Advising Landlords in respect of their position when dealing with an insolvent tenant to include recovering their property and proving their claim in the insolvent estate
Advising Insolvency Practitioners in their capacity as trustees in bankruptcy in recovering property for the benefit of the creditors in the bankruptcy estate

Expertise: Sectors

Businesses

Insolvency practitioners

Expertise: Services

Businesses

Insolvency

My insights

11.10.2023,

Updates

Immigration sponsor licence considerations during insolvency

With recent challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic downturn and the costs of living crisis, it's no surprise that the number of corporate insolvencies over the first half of 2023 are in excess of 12,000; the highest in the previous 10 years for this point of the year.
6.06.2023,

Updates

Changes to Fixed Recoverable Costs
7.09.2022,

Updates

Confirmed increases to official receiver deposits

The Insolvency Service announced on the 5th September that it would be increasing the Official Receiver's Deposit on all creditor instigated bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation proceedings.

Partner | Insolvency and Corporate Recovery

Experience

My insights

Immigration sponsor licence considerations during insolvency

Changes to Fixed Recoverable Costs

Confirmed increases to official receiver deposits

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