Eleanor Holland

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Eleanor Holland and Karl Anderson of 4 Stone Buildings, considers statutory demands in the context of corporate debtors. It provides guidance on the purpose of a statutory demand including when it is necessary, the contents , of a statutory demand and the requirements for service on the corporate debtor. It also sets out what the consequences are to a corporate debtor if it fails to comply with a statutory demand served on it, principally that it will allow the creditor to present a winding-up petition against the corporate debtor.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Eleanor Holland and Karl Anderson of 4 Stone Buildings, sets out various circumstances when a company may be wound up by the court (ie compulsory liquidation), including resolution by the company itself, where the company has not commenced trading or suspends its business, on just and equitable grounds, or when a creditor asserts that the company is insolvent, usually because it is unable to pay its debts.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Eleanor Holland and Karl Anderson of 4 Stone Buildings, provides guidance as to the practice and procedure on the presentation of a winding-up petition by a creditor of a company. It considers the checks to be undertaken and information obtained prior to presenting a winding-up petition, and the steps to be taken by following issue, including the service and advertisement of the winding-up petition. Finally, this Practice Note looks at the steps the debtor company should take if it intends to oppose the winding-up petition, and what the petitioning creditor needs to do if it wishes to withdraw the winding-up petition.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Karl Anderson and Elizabeth Walsh of 4 Stone Buildings, looks at the effect on court proceedings where the defendant company either has a winding-up order made against it, or where its members pass a resolution for its winding up, or where a winding-up petition is presented against it.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Eleanor Holland and Karl Anderson of 4 Stone Buildings, sets out the consequences and effect of the making of a winding-up order by the court on a creditor’s winding-up petition, also known as a compulsory liquidation or winding up, including the steps that the official receiver is required to take, what happens to the directors’ powers, and who the liquidator will be.