{"id":1274,"date":"2017-06-16T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justycja.co.uk\/legal\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2017-06-16T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T23:03:08","slug":"what-happens-when-a-business-is-sold-out-of-administration-or-insolvency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/what-happens-when-a-business-is-sold-out-of-administration-or-insolvency\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When a Business Is Sold out of Administration or Insolvency (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author:\u00a0Barry Stewart,\u00a0Personal and Corporate Recovery Specialist\u00a0and Director\u00a0at\u00a0180\u00a0Advisory\u00a0Solutions Limited<\/b>\u00a0(see whole article<\/a>).
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\nEarlier this year, Alfreton-based packaging company Charapak entered <\/b>administration<\/b><\/a> after key client losses and bad debt rendered them unable to pay their bills.<\/b>
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\nJudging by previous newspaper reports about administration failures, you\u2019d be excused for thinking Charapak<\/a> was destined for the scrap heap with a raft of job losses looming.
\nHowever, that couldn\u2019t be further from what happened.
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\nOn 13th March, Charapak was bought out of administration<\/b> by its bosses, saving 85 jobs and the business.
\nIn this article, I\u2019m going to explore what happens to a business when it enters administration (or another form of insolvency) and a buyer can be found.
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\nWhat is administration?<\/strong>
\nAn administration<\/b><\/a> is a formal rescue procedure designed to provide a better outcome<\/b> than a liquidation. An administrator can be appointed by the company’s directors or its creditors, including the bank.
\nAn administration can be thought of as throwing a safety net<\/b> over a business to protect it from its creditors while the administrator (who must be an insolvency practitioner) assesses the business and tries to rescue it. Once they have been appointed, the administrator takes over control<\/b> of the company and, in effect, replaces the directors.
\nDuring an administration, the creditors (including landlords and HP companies) are restricted in taking any action against the company. An administration can normally last up to 12 months, although this can be extended.
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\n\"What-Is-Administration\"<\/a>
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\nWhat happens when a company goes into administration?<\/strong>
\nWhen a company enters administration, the administrator assumes complete control<\/b> over the company’s business and assets.
\nThe administrator takes over responsibility for running the company with the key goal of getting the best possible outcome for its creditors<\/b>.
\nIf the business, or parts of it, are viable, the best outcome for creditors will be for the business or parts of it to be saved as a going concern<\/i>.
\n(The simple fact is that higher prices are paid by purchasers for ongoing businesses rather than simply buying assets from a closed down business.)
\nTherefore, a good insolvency practitioner will always consider whether the business can be continued and sold eventually as a going concern<\/i> \u2014 or even whether the company itself can be rescued and returned to profitable trading.
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\nExit Routes out of administration<\/strong>
\nThe company itself may be rescued and exit administration in one piece.
\nAlternatively, if the company itself cannot be rescued, the business (or parts of the business) might be sold as a going concern<\/i>.
\nThe last resort is that no part of the business can be rescued as a going concern<\/i> and the business is closed down and its assets are sold off.
\nThe outcome of an administration is totally dependent on the company’s individual circumstances but can be influenced positively by appointing a good insolvency practitioner at an early enough stage.
\nTo Be Continued…
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Author:\u00a0Barry Stewart,\u00a0Personal and Corporate Recovery Specialist\u00a0and Director\u00a0at\u00a0180\u00a0Advisory\u00a0Solutions Limited\u00a0(see whole article).   Earlier this year, Alfreton-based packaging company Charapak entered administration after key client losses and bad debt rendered them unable to pay their bills.   Judging by previous newspaper reports about administration failures, you\u2019d be excused for thinking Charapak was destined for the scrap heap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"1274","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}