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Andrew Tonge

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Work Department

Restructuring & Insolvency

Position

Partner

Career

Andrew is an experienced Restructuring and Insolvency lawyer.

Andrew’s expertise covers all aspects of corporate insolvency law and practice. Throughout his career, Andrew has represented a wide range of clients across diverse sectors. He acts in advisory, litigation and transactional matters, including in relation to:

• Administration and liquidation
• Directors’ duties, risk, and disqualification
• Insolvency investigations, associated criminal offences, delivery of information, confidentiality, and privilege
• Trading whilst insolvent, wrongful trading, misfeasance
• Securities, debentures, and financial collateral
• Antecedent transactions (e g, undervalues, preferences), asset stripping and creditor avoidance
• Phoenix companies and the re-use of insolvent company names
• Advising boards of directors in the ‘twilight zone’ — identifying insolvency, when to call in administrators and liquidators, and how to deal with creditors including banks
• Distressed and insolvent business and asset disposals including pre-pack and pre-insolvency disposals
• Banking, finance and corporate disputes and litigation
• Litigation and disputes arising from administration and liquidation
• Professional regulatory investigations and proceedings brought by the FCA and SRA
• Guarantees and indemnities
• Fraud and money laundering

Previous Law Firms

• Nexus Solicitors Limited (Director), 2011 to 2022
• Nexus Solicitors (Partner), 2007 to 2011
• Hill Dickinson (Partner), 2004 to 2007
• Previously at other law firms since 1995