Practice Areas

• Corporate Recovery & Insolvency
• Banking and Finance
• Commercial Debt Recovery
• Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Expertise

Guy Thomas has many years experience of all types of business recovery & insolvency procedures. Guy offers extensive expertise in both contentious & non contentious insolvency.

Key Experience and Clients

• Insolvency event mitigation services (including disputed winding up petitions)
• Formal corporate insolvency advice and implementation
• Personal insolvency advice
• Directors' risk assessment and reduction / disqualification proceedings
• Distressed and accelerated MBOs or business disposals
• Members voluntary liquidations and corporate strike-offs
• Section 110 and other schemes of corporate reorganisation

Insolvency

Guy advises businesses and individuals in relation to their own affairs and also on the impact of insolvency proceedings affecting a business' suppliers and customers. His strong relationships with local and national insolvency practitioners (for whom he also acts) mean he is well placed to represent clients with insolvency issues. His experience allows him to act quickly and minimise the impact of the insolvency event.

Restructuring

Whilst insolvency is seldom welcome, many of the procedures available can be utilised to allow a business to be restructured. The legislation can also be used by solvent businesses to reorganise asset holdings. Guy’s clients range from football clubs to property investment vehicles.

Articles and Publications

• Vantis helps Portsmouth FC - Accountancy Age - February 2010
  
• Pompey court out but still alive - just - BBC Sport Blog - February 2010
  
• Portsmouth "set for administration" - Sport Business - February 2010
  
• The Pension Protection Fund has stepped up its interest in insolvency. Have Insolvency Practitioners responded in kind? - September 2009
  
• "Fellow Director who “knowingly allowed loans” is jointly liable to the Company for the Debt" - September 2008
• "Section 313 Charges and their enforceability after 12 years" - September 2008
• "Disqualification of a Director for Breach of Consumer Protection Legislation" - August 2006

Guy regularly blogs on current issues in the media, to read his blog pieces please visit the SA Law Blog by clicking here.

Awards and Accolades

"An Associate to watch - Guy Thomas heads up the corporate recovery and insolvency unit at SA Law and is noted for his extensive expertise in both contentious and non-contentious personal and corporate insolvency matters” - Chambers and Partners Legal Directory 2010

"Guy Thomas of SA Law continues to advise the board of Watford Leisure and the Watford Football Club Association on its restructuring, litigation and refinancing."
Chambers and Partners Legal Directory 2010

"Robert Ryall and Guy Thomas are commended for ‘calmness in volatile situations’ and ‘bring sharp focus to decision making moments’".
The Legal 500 (2010)