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Restructuring and Insolvency Partner

Femi Ogunshakin

Femi qualified as a soclitor in 2011 following a 21-year career in the tax and accountancy profession. While still taking on the occasional tax instructions, Femi’s career with Nexa has concentrated on building the firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency capacity.

Areas of Practise

  • Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Tax Disputes/Resolution & Litigation
  • Employment Law
  • Company Commercial Law

Background

Femi’s pre-law career has seen him gain experience as a tax inspector within HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), a tax consultant in two of the Big 4 accountancy firms and as a Senior Manager in an in-house role with a top 10 global bank. Femi’s current focus is in the insolvency space where he and his team are regilarly instructed to assist companies and individuals facing winding up and bankruptcy petitions, and arena in which the courts are seeing exponential growth, in particular from creditors such as HMRC.

More areas of expertise

  • Winding Up/Bankruptcy Petitions;
  • Validation Orders (Interim Relief Applications);
  • HMRC Time to Pay Arrangements;
  • Injunctive Relief Applications;
  • Rescission Applications;
  • Liquidator/Official Receiver Director Defence;
  • Director Disqualification Defence; and
  • Company Restoration Applications.

Memberships

  • Insolvency Law Association;
  • R3 – The Association of Business Recovery Professionals;
  • Liverpool Law Society; and
  • Employment Lawyers Association

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