Oliver Jackson

Oliver is experienced in corporate insolvency matters, undertaking contentious and non-contentious work.

Oliver regularly advises insolvency practitioners acting as administrators in relation to the appointment process, pre-pack and post-appointment sales of company assets and businesses, administration trading issues, antecedent transaction claims and various other matters during the administration process.

Oliver also advises liquidators in relation to creditors’ claims, ROT issues, dealing with winding up petitions and CVL’s, the recovery of assets from debtors and taking actions against directors.

Oliver also advises in relation to:

• Directors’ duties and obligations in scenarios where a company is in financial difficulty.
• Advising the directors of companies in an insolvency process in relation to claims against them from an administrator or liquidator.
• CVAs and IVAs.
• Personal insolvency matters including advising trustees in bankruptcy on all matters relating to the bankruptcy and bankruptcy estate including issuing possession and other proceedings, income payment arrangements and claims in the bankruptcy.
• Dealing with statutory demands, winding-up petitions and debt recovery.

Cases

• Advising the administrators of The Holiday Place Plc – a large holiday tour operator company, which had been trading for nearly 30 years. This involved advising the administrators on the repatriation process, the sale of certain assets and other administration insolvency matters.
• Advising a buyer in respect of the pre-packaged acquisition of the business and assets of a company specialising in the development of clean energy products and energy efficiency and environmental sustainability technologies from its administrators.
• Acting for the Administrators’ of a manufacturer of automotive cleaning products in relation to the sale of the company’s business and assets to two separate parties who each acquired separate parts of the company’s business.
• Advising the administrators of a group of companies in the UK beverage industry operating off-license stores trading under various high-street brands. Oliver advised on the trading and ultimate disposal of over 150 stores to over 8 separate purchasers (Winerack, Victoria Wines, the Local).

Oliver specialises in advising companies and directors of financially stressed companies in working through solvent solutions for rescue, including refinancing and creditor arrangements. Oliver has worked on some of the largest and most complex restructurings nationwide within the last 15 years.

Oliver is experienced in liaising and negotiating with various high profile stakeholders and providing strategic advice to the client during the course of the restructuring process. Oliver has advised on restructuring matters in various sectors including retail, hospitality and transport

Cases

• Acting for a local authority with a population of over 300,000 in relation to a large restructuring in the sports sector and dealing with various high profile stakeholders including suppliers, customers and other local authorities.
• Advising the operating company of a large UK Port in relation to a complex restructuring. This involved extensive negotiations with certain high profile parties.
• Advising an international manufacturing group on the acquisition of significant assets from the administrators of two UK based packaging companies.
• Advising a company operating in the construction sector on the process of placing a subsidiary company into an insolvency process as part of a restructuring process and the relevant considerations for the parent company;
• Leading 4 complex and unprecedented restructurings of the UK Coal businesses between 2012 and 2015.