Bloomsbury Professional Buying and Selling Insolvent Companies and Businesses in Ireland

Product Description Buying and Selling Insolvent Companies and Businesses is a brand new title focusing on all aspects of the purchase and sale of an insolvent company or business, practical, legal and financial. Designed for the lay reader, as well as the practitioner, it provides a clear insight into issues that can arise when a target business is insolvent and how to deal with them. This new title brings the specific Irish legal and commercial aspects of the potential transaction into focus. It also informs the reader of the more unusual matters a practitioner may encounter. Issues such as hive-down of a section of the business; creditors' claims; employees; pensions; tax; goodwill; carry-over of business name; and stakeholder roles are all examined. Addressing the legal and commercial aspects of the potential transaction particular to Ireland, Buying and Selling Insolvent Companies and Businesses includes: A review of the implications of different forms of insolvency, personal and corporate; Different structures for the sale transaction; Acquisition of assets v shares; Pensions; Retention of target customers and suppliers. Fully comprehensive, it also covers the not so-common issues of hive-down of creditors' claims; goodwill; carry-over of business name; and stakeholder roles. Buying and Selling Insolvent Companies and Businesses is fully up-to-date with respect to all relevant legislation, including the latest Companies Acts and is essential reading for insolvency professionals, lawyers, accountants, bankers or financial advisors, pre and post-graduate students, M&A and general practice accountants, business advisors, directors and investors. A full set of precedents will guide you through each transaction and will include the following: Business Transfer Agreement; Guaranteed liabilities; Novation of Contract; Intellectual Property Rights Assignment; Debenture; Guarantee and Indemnity. Review Accessible in terms of language, comprehensive in topics covered and practical in terms of examples given - there will not be buyer's remorse with this excellent publication. --Accountancy Ireland About the Author Bill Holohan, B.C.L., LL.B., F.C.I.L.S., F.C.I.Arb., A.M. (CEDR), is the Senior Partner of Holohan Solicitors, (Cork and Dublin) and uniquely in Ireland, is qualified as a Solicitor, a Commissioner for Oaths, a Notary Public, an Arbitrator, a CEDR Accredited Mediator, an Irish Trade Mark Agent, and EU Community Trade Mark Practitioner. Ted Harding BA (Mod.) (Dublin); LL.M. (UCD); C.Dip. Accounting & Finance (ACCA); Dip. L.S.; Dip. Arb.; MCI Arb. is a practising barrister. He has previously been the Editor of The Sunday Business Post. Ger O'Mahoney is a partner in PwC with 26 years' experience in public commercial and business advisory practice and leads their regional advisory practice. He is also a past President of the Cork Chamber of Commerce where he held that position for two years.