The members of our specialist insolvency and corporate recovery unit have considerable knowledge and experience in all contentious and non-contentious areas of insolvency and corporate recovery law, including: 

• Secured and unsecured lending recovery
• Creditors’ rights on insolvency
• Retention of title issues
• Advice to banks in respect of company law enforcement and procedural aspects of corporate insolvency including the enforcement of guarantees and security
• Advice to banks on appointments of receivers
• Court applications arising on corporate insolvency
• Advice and support to receivers appointed by lending institutions in respect of all issues including appointment, recovery of costs and receivers’ powers
• Company law issues arising in corporate restructuring
• Advising official and voluntary liquidators in respect of procedural aspects of liquidations
• Advising liquidators and individuals in respect of restriction and disqualification orders
• Advising in respect of fraudulent preference and fraudulent disposition actions
• Advising in respect of fraudulent trading and reckless trading actions

Most recently we have:

• Advised a receiver appointed by a large lending institution in respect of the conduct of a receivership on behalf of a mortgagee where the company had continued to trade
• Represented the liquidator of a company in a fraudulent preference action against the directors
• Provided strategic advices to a receiver appointed by large lending institution in respect of the recovery of a substantial debt owed to the lending institution
• Represented liquidators in taking restriction proceedings against the directors of a company in liquidation
• Advised a liquidator in a creditors’ voluntary liquidation of a large international manufacturing plant which culminated in a substantial asset sale
• Represented the Official Liquidator in a number of liquidations initiated by the Revenue Commissioners 
• Acted for liquidators in a number of members' voluntary liquidations for both limited and unlimited Irish companies .
   

“Holmes O'Malley Sexton has been involved in the Ely Medical Group examinership, representing Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Fund.”
The Legal 500 2011 - Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring.