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September 22, 2026 — Crowell & Moring represented a group of bondholders in securing the appointment of Michael Leeds and Kristina Kicks of Interpath Limited as joint administrators of William John (HV) PLC. 

London – July 29, 2026 [Updated Aug. 26, 2026]: Crowell & Moring's London Restructuring and Insolvency team has been appointed by Kroll Advisory in the administration of Woodville Consultants Limited (trading as Woodville Litigation Funding), a motor finance litigation funder with an estimated £330m loan book and more than 300,000 claims under its belt. The team first acted for a group of investors in successfully securing a contested administration order from the High Court and has since been retained by Kroll to assist in the wider administration process.

During the first quarter of 2022, Crowell’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Insolvency (BRI) team continued developing valuable blog content focused on the latest developments across the world of bankruptcy and financial restructuring both in the US and the UK. Our Restructuring Matters Blog tracks and evaluates significant developments on a number of issues and cases to keep readers updated on major bankruptcy decisions and trends, developments in best practices for various finance and restructuring strategies, and the potential impact of the major case decisions and trends for various business sectors.

In these unprecedented times, all businesses will be facing issues they have never encountered before. The disruption caused by the measures imposed to combat the COVID-19 outbreak are significant and wide-reaching, impacting every business and its suppliers, customers, workforce, investors and lenders. Companies find themselves operating in the shadow of potential bankruptcies along the supply chain, in their customer base and their trading partners globally and are facing a myriad of issues related to business disruption, salvaging relationships and restructuring liabilities and business structures to facilitate ongoing trading. To ensure an ability to recommence trading when the current lockdown is over, clients may need to take a number of steps to keep their business alive. Some of the key questions arising are set out below:

On March 20, 2020, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, unveiled the U.K.  government's further £350bn package of fiscal measures to mitigate the severe economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. One of the most significant measures is the launch of the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (the Scheme) which went live on March 23.