Share sales and insolvency claims

Alexandra Withers of Manolete provides a case study which gives UK officeholders a practical roadmap for pursuing claims arising from share-sale structures where company cash is extracted to fund an outgoing shareholder’s exit, highlighting how insolvency can be established, how breach of duty and transaction at undervalue claims may be framed, and why statutory defences will be difficult where the company received no real benefit and creditors were left exposed.

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