Global property investors warm to the UK

by Katerina | Aug 6, 2024 | News

Not far from the Buchler Phillips office in London’s Mayfair lies Grafton Street. Number 20 is an elegant, though perhaps unremarkable building offering 17,000 sq. ft of office and retail space. Yet its £100m sale in April was one of the highest ever capital values...

LETTER FROM LONDON: LABOUR IN OFFICE – A NEW ECONOMIC DIRECTION?

by Katerina | Jul 30, 2024 | News

It suits each and every incoming government to claim that their economic inheritance is worse than anticipated in order that it can blame its predecessors for any early tough decisions it is forced to make. So the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, in her...

Zombie Apocalypse

by Katerina | Jul 23, 2024 | News

The day of reckoning looms for The Walking Dead. As far back as three years ago we highlighted the huge rise in ‘zombie companies’, businesses that had been artificially propped up by Covid loans and relatively low interest rates on their core borrowings. Many of...

Disqualifications still dominated by Covid loan abuse

by Katerina | Jul 17, 2024 | News

The expression ‘slippery as an eel’ comes to mind when considering the directors of a company closed down this month for abusing the Covid loan scheme. Lincolnshire based The Eel Screen Company, an eel protection business, provided false turnover figures in 2020 to...

July 2024 Newsletter: What happens after the landslide?

by Katerina | Jul 9, 2024 | News

As the new government gets to work prioritising the country’s many demands, it is clearly too early to discuss how the world of business – and specifically insolvency, restructuring and turnaround – will be affected by eventual changes in policy...