Michael is a Senior Executive in the Litigation and Insolvency team at Healys LLP.
Practice Area/Department
Insolvency/Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Experience
Michael is a senior executive in the litigation and insolvency team at Healys LLP and has more than 20 years' experience in advising on a broad range of litigation and insolvency matters with particular expertise in personal insolvency.
He has considerable experience in representing both trustees and liquidators on a diverse range of insolvency matters including the following:
- The realisation of assets including transactions at undervalue and preference claims;
- Applications for possession and sale (reported cases include Nicholls v Lan [2006] 1255 (CH) Exceptional circumstances/Human Rights Act);
- Income Payments Order;
- Petitioning on failed Individual Voluntary Arrangements ("IVA"), companies Arrangements
- ("CVA's"), Partnership Arrangements ("PVA's");
- Disputed petitions, restraining advertisement of winding up petitions;
- Validation orders;
- Applications to suspend, bankrupt's discharge and interim suspension orders;
- Redirecting bankrupt's post under section 371 of the Insolvency Act 1986;
- Application to annul bankruptcy orders;
- Recovery of director's loan account;
- Director's disqualification proceedings; and
- After acquired property applications.
Michael also acts for claimants in relation to general litigation matters in both the County Court and High Court and also on enforcement of judgments. In addition, he is regularly instructed to act on behalf of substantial commercial clients in relation to debt recovery actions.
