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We can investigate companies that have been dissolved without entering into formal insolvency proceedings
Complain to the Insolvency Service if a director or sole trader is re-using the name (or a similar name) of a company in compulsory or creditors’ voluntary liquidation.
Detailed information about the restrictions on the re-use of company names, when a director can re-use a company name after insolvent liquidation, how to apply for permission to use a prohibited name and how to complain.
information about how to complain about misconduct to the Insolvency Service and what we will do about it.
This chapter gives advice to Official Receivers on carrying out a decision-making process under the insolvency legislation, in particular the process to effect the appointment of an insolvency practitioner as liquidator or t…
Guidance and support available to businesses in England.
This page provides a full list of published guidance about the following processes administered or regulated by the Insolvency Service:
Distribution by means of a dividend or division of property
Recovering sums due in respect of antecedent recoveries such as excessive pension contributions, misfeasance of directors, voidable dispositions and transactions defrauding creditors
Crown departments
This chapter provides advice on dealing with pensions
How the accounting systems in relation to insolvent estates operate and the legislative basis for the accounting for fees and expenses relating to the work of the official receiver.
What insolvency means for limited companies and their directors.
This guide refers to investigations by the Insolvency Service into companies that have entered into formal insolvency proceedings – which means administration, administrative receivership, voluntary and compulsory liquidatio…
Powers, duties and functions of the Official Receiver including situations where those powers are limited by law or by internal operational rules
Guidance on requiring and submission of statements of affairs and further accounts.
The Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 (the Act) modernises and simplifies the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 1930 and the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1930
Dealing with antecedent recoveries other than preferences and transactions at undervalue.
Compensation orders aim to make directors who are subject to a disqualification order or undertaking financially account for the consequences of their unfit conduct.
This guidance deals with the circumstances in which the Registrar of Companies may dissolve a company
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