Tim Evans

With extensive experience in both transactional and contentious insolvency law, I advise insolvency practitioners, directors, lenders, and creditors on formal insolvency processes, including Administration, Liquidation, and Receivership, across various sectors such as retail, manufacturing, and cryptocurrency.

I advise insolvency practitioners, directors, lenders, and creditors on all areas of transactional and contentious insolvency law. My experience covers the formal insolvency processes, including Administration, Liquidation, and Receivership.

In particular, I have extensive experience acting on Administration appointments and negotiating business and asset sales, having acted both Administrator and the buyer side. I also regularly advise directors of financially distressed companies on their statutory duties. Additionally, I provide guidance to secured lenders on the validity and priority of their security and their enforcement options in the context of borrower default. I also advise insolvency practitioners in respect of their statutory duties, including regarding creditor approval and reporting obligations.

My contentious experience includes both presenting and opposing winding-up petitions, as well as bringing technical applications under the Insolvency Act on behalf of Administrators, including those under paragraphs 71 and 107 of Schedule B1. I have acted for office holders in pursuing claims regarding antecedent transactions, in particular regarding preferences and transactions at an undervalue. I have also acted beneficiary side in defending preference claims.

I also have experience in energy sector distress, having been seconded to Ofgem's consumer energy team, advising with a focus on the supplier of last resort process.

Throughout my career, I have worked across a variety of sectors, including energy, retail, manufacturing, leisure and hospitality, social care, and cryptocurrency.

• Acted for the Administrators on the sale of a large retail business (c.200 stores), advising around landlord and tenant issues in the context of the Administration.
• Acted for a global automotive client in respect of its investment into an automotive technology start-up. I provided advice around director's duties, the Administration of the start-up and the protection of the underlying intellectual property.
• Acted for Administrators on the sale of a group of care homes.
• Acted for the Administrators on the sale of a business in the medical cannabis sector. The sale required a paragraph 71 Court application due to challenges from the second ranking secured creditor.
• Acted for Administrators in bringing a preference / transaction at undervalue claim against creditors of the business in Administration.
• Acted for US parent of e-commerce platform on the solvent wind-up of its global operations.
• Advised high net work individual on the Liquidation of a cryptocurrency platform in which the client had invested Bitcoin.
• Capabilities
• Restructuring & Insolvency