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Our complete service range includes corporate insolvency, company restructuring, creditor support, financial advisory, business finance, funding, business sales, asset sales and real estate advisory. Our highly esteemed team are trusted upon for their unique expertise, industry insights, and expert knowledge to deliver results-driven solutions.
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Our complete service range includes corporate insolvency, company restructuring, creditor support, financial advisory, business finance, funding, business sales, asset sales and real estate advisory. Our highly esteemed team are trusted upon for their unique expertise, industry insights, and expert knowledge to deliver results-driven solutions.
The business of specialist management accountancy firm EK Williams has been sold via a pre-pack administration to a company owned by the former management. The sale was successfully negotiated after a period of marketing and discussion with interested parties. The company had provided bespoke services to petrol forecourt retailers since 1935. After acquiring another accountancy firm in 2010 the economic downturn caused difficulty in the company making the deferred payments, which led the directors to seek help from Begbies Traynor. The sale saved 27 jobs and provided continuity for its many blue chip customers.
2nd Thoughts Ltd, trading as Ellie Louise and Happit, was sold by our Leeds team after this long established chain fell victim to the retail sector downturn. Moving quickly they secured a buyer three days after appointment. HMRC had issued a winding up petition but liquidation would not be the best outcome, halting trade, losing goodwill and increasing preferential creditors through significant redundancies. Administration enhanced goodwill, ensured customer continuity and retaining most staff. This prompt ‘going concern’ sale allowed 49 stores in leasehold premises to go on trading, protecting over 240 jobs and minimising creditor claims.
Our Ashford office is led by Dean Watson, a partner at Begbies Traynor Group, highly experienced insolvency practitioner and all-round business rescue expert. We have over 100 offices nationwide and several across Northwest England, including Greater Manchester.
Our professional services cover the lifecycle of any sized business, from SMEs, mid-sized businesses to large enterprises. Our collaborative, partner-led approach helps deliver highly efficient solutions that are cost-effective and accessible to all types of stakeholders through one point of contact.
Our talented team of licensed insolvency practitioners and business turnaround professionals are available to assist directors and shareholders during periods of financial uncertainty. We handle the highest number of corporate insolvency and restructuring appointments in the UK.
Our licensed insolvency practitioners and business turnaround professionals handle the largest number of corporate insolvency and restructuring appointments in the UK. We are an established and trusted insolvency services provider with varied sector experience.
Our financial advisory specialists provide strategic advice to companies, investors, lenders and stakeholders to improve performance. We offer capital management, corporate finance, forensic services, pensions advisory and transaction support. Our finance and funding specialists can bring these plans to fruitions through a variety of solutions to stimulate business growth, fund acquisitions and accelerate market share.
Our award-winning property agency can help navigate all aspects of commercial real estate, from management, valuation and transactional support, and our leading business transfer agents can facilitate business sales and acquisitions.
For a free confidential meeting with a professional adviser in Ashford, get in touch with Begbies Traynor Group in Greater Manchester. We also have additional offices nearby in Central Manchester, Stockport, Warrington and Bury.
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