Dealing with property issues on insolvency

Event information

In this webinar Jon Chesman, of Squire Patton Boggs will cover how to deal with freehold and leasehold property in an insolvent estate. Exploring the main real estate challenges officeholders encounter when managing leasehold and freehold properties in insolvency situations, Jon will also consider and offer practical tips for managing difficult landlords and dealing with common issues that arise in practice.

Key benefits

• Valuable CPD brought to you by ICAEW.
• Gain insight on common challenges faced by officeholders when dealing with properties.
• Understand the legal framework around many key areas of dealing with properties, along with practical tips to streamline the process and mitigate risks.

About the speakers

John Chesman, Director, Squire Patton Boggs Jon Chesman is a director in Squire Patton Boggs’ Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group, based in the Leeds office.He has a broad restructuring and insolvency practice and provides contentious and non-contentious insolvency advice to management teams, insolvency practitioners, sponsors, companies and creditors. In particular, Jon has extensive experience in advising PE-backed groups in stressed or distressed scenarios, as well as acting for PE-houses, PE-portfolio entities and trade buyers in bolt-on acquisitions of distressed assets.

Victoria Alexandrou, Insolvency Manager, ICAEW (Facilitator) Victoria has over 20 years’ insolvency experience. She has worked in firms ranging from a sole practitioner to one of the Big 4 and completed JIEB in 2011. She joined ICAEW’s QAD department in 2016 as a reviewer, completing both insolvency and practice assurance visits, before being promoted to manager in 2024. Outside of work, Victoria enjoys running, watching motor sports, especially WRC, and is a avid reader.

CPD hours

ICAEW's revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations bring in new CPD requirements. This includes a minimum number of hours and an ethics requirement. Attending this webinar could contribute up to 1 hour of verifiable CPD, providing you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role.

A copy of the webinar booking confirmation email is accepted as evidence of verifiable CPD. You will need to save the email as a JPEG or PDF before uploading it to your record. Click here to use ICAEW’s self-assessment tool to help you work out how much CPD you will need to fulfil each year.

Costs

This webinar is free to attend.

ICAEW members and non-members are welcome to join. This event is organised by the Restructuring & Insolvency Community. Please click here to join online.