Sonia Jordan

With more 30 years’ experience, Sonia advises on corporate restructuring and recovery, with particular expertise in corporate restructuring; administration, liquidation and insolvency processes; distressed M&A and asset salesl dreditor advisory and recovery strategy; directors’ duties and wrongful trading advice; debt negotiations and refinancing; security enforcement and priority disputes; and complex insolvency frorensic asset recovery.

She works with private equity and debt investors seeking to acquire, restructure, or sell businesses, both within and outside formal insolvency processes, alongside advising insolvency practitioners on business and asset sales, company voluntary arrangements, and all contentious aspects of formal insolvencies, with particular expertise in asset tracing and recovery actions.

Sonia also provides independent advice to directors of distressed companies on their duties, corporate sales, restructuring, informal credit arrangements, and continues to advise on personal insolvency matters. She has also acted for financial stakeholders in the administration and sale of several high-street retailers dealing with assets both in the UK and globally.

Sonia is an active member of key organisations within the profession, including serving on the board of the Turnaround Management Association (UK) the National Council of R3, and the UK restructuring and insolvency trade association.

Examples of Sonia’s work include:

• Advising the directors of a global IT solutions business in a multi-million pound debt restructuring to avoid wholesale collapse of the corporate structure.
• Acting for a UK business bank specialising in real estate finance in the recovery of non-performing and defaulting loans.
• Advising the board of directors of an established, award-winning real estate developer on corporate governance and directors’ obligations.
• Applying for, and obtaining, court-ordered administrations for several companies in unusual circumstances where the companies were unable to legally function due to death and director resignations.
• Obtaining an injunction and dismissal of a vexatious winding-up petition presented against an award-winning, specialist building restoration company in time-pressured circumstances.