Jonathan Allen

This includes dealing with antecedent transactions, breach of directors’ duties, transactions defrauding creditors, director disqualification proceedings, winding-up proceedings, fraud, twilight trading advice, as well as other insolvency related matters. He also has experience in complex contractual issues, Companies Act claims, shareholder disputes and high-value debt recovery work.

Understanding the financial, time and wider pressures that clients face, Jonathan is a forthright negotiator who regularly obtains strong results for clients that exceed their expectations. Recognising that insolvency is highly stressful for many clients, he is equally client conscious and commercially focused when working on advisory matters and solvent liquidations.

Jonathan is a proficient tactician, able to build a case to meet clients’ needs. He has a particular interest in forensic and fraud work arising from the insolvency context. Jonathan works alongside the wider team in acting for a range of clients, including insolvency practitioners, companies, individuals and deceased estates. His experience includes building specialisms in a wide range of sectors, especially matters involving overseas entities, as part of complex group structures. These span life sciences/biotech; energy; education and charities; pharmaceuticals; real estate; not-for-profit; sports; and retail. In the past 12 months, Jonathan has developed a niche specialism in advising life sciences start-up companies and supporting education facilities in the current challenging economy.