Company Administration

  • An administrator is appointed to manage the affairs of the company to achieve specific objectives
  • Must be satisfied that the company is insolvent or likely to become insolvent
  • Tries to rescue the company as a going concern
  • Or achieve better results for the creditors than if the company were wound up
  • Realise the property in order to make a distribution to secured or preferential creditors
  • 1 year time limit which can be extended with creditors’ and Court’s permission
  • A proposal presented to its creditors via an Insolvency Practitioner
  • Can be a possible route to turnaround the business