Kevin Sullivan

Kevin specialises in contentious insolvency, with more than 25 years’ experience acting for insolvency practitioners, directors, companies and individuals across a wide range of complex, high-value corporate and personal insolvency disputes.

His areas of expertise include breach of duty, wrongful trading, transactions defrauding creditors, preferences, and unlawful dividends, director disqualification proceedings, corporate and personal insolvency-related disputes.

Alongside working with creditors of companies and individuals to recover monies owed to them, Kevin advises creditors and insolvency practitioners on retention of title issues, acts for directors facing threatened or actual disqualification proceedings under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, and advises on shareholder and corporate disputes (with particular expertise in disputes involving unfair prejudice, warranty, or indemnity claims).

Kevin holds the Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency and is an Associate member of R3, the UK’s insolvency and restructuring trade association.

Examples of Kevin’s work include:

• Acting for a director of a company which went into creditors’ voluntary liquidation in relation to a substantial overdrawn director’s loan account.
• Acting for client as joint liquidator of three associated companies in claims against a further associated company and the companies’ common director.
• Advising a bankrupt client in a dispute with the Official Receiver (as her trustee in bankruptcy) regarding the extent of her beneficial interest in a property.
• Supporting the joint liquidators of a company in relation to the recovery of a substantially overdrawn director’s loan account and a misfeasance claim against the sole director, as well as a void dispositions claim against an associated company.
• Assisting a director/shareholder in a dispute with fellow directors and shareholders regarding the management of a highly successful and well-established printing and investments company.
• Acting for the sellers (former shareholders) of a substantial company in defending them against threatened warranty and indemnity claims (circa £600,000) by the buyers.