Ambuja is a Partner in the Insolvency & Restructuring and Commercial Litigation teams, with over 20 years’ experience working in the insolvency, business restructuring and asset-based lending sectors.

She advises insolvency practitioners, financiers, creditors, shareholders and directors of distressed businesses, as well as individuals facing bankruptcy, on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious business rescue, debt recovery and insolvency law.

Ambuja provides strategic advice in relation to insolvency options to key stakeholders, business owners and individuals with a view to rescue and recovery rather than formal insolvency where possible. She can guide clients through a restructuring, solvent liquidation or insolvency process from start to finish, beginning with applications for validation orders and administration appointments and attendance at creditors' meetings through to bankruptcy annulments and distributions to creditors.

Ambuja has a particular specialism in advising charities, independent schools, and universities and other education institutions in situations where they, their trading subsidiaries, or suppliers are impacted by financial distress. 

She is highly experienced in dealing with the sale and acquisition of insolvent businesses, including through a pre-pack administration process, acting for either insolvency practitioners, purchasers, shareholders or guarantors, and can assist in the negotiating and drafting of the necessary transactional documents. When needed, Ambuja is supported by the Real Estate, Employment and Corporate and Commercial teams to ensure that any ancillary concerns relating to a sale are addressed.

She can assist parties in assessing the merits of any claims that may be brought against them and is able to give pragmatic solutions to help directors minimise the risk of trading whilst insolvent. She has experience of dealing with attempts to claw-back antecedent transactions such as preferences and transactions at an undervalue and has also advised in respect of potential transactions defrauding creditors and allegations of wrongful trading and misfeasance. She is accustomed to assisting parties who may be faced with claims from the Insolvency Service, the Official Receiver or an insolvency practitioner in respect of their prior dealings with an insolvent entity, including in respect of director disqualification.

Ambuja also provides specialist advice to businesses who have been affected by key suppliers going bust or customers becoming insolvent, individuals with family members who are bankrupt and landlords of insolvent tenants and aims to highlight, at an early stage, the rights and options you may have available to you to assist you in reaching as favourable an outcome as possible.

Prior to qualifying as an insolvency lawyer in London, Ambuja worked for three and a half years as an insolvency administrator with a Top Ten UK accountancy firm in their Recovery & Restructuring department which gives her a unique perspective of your practical requirements and a helpful insight into insolvency practitioners' operations enabling her to provide commercial, as well as technically sound, advice.

She particularly appreciates the need for prompt action and support at a time when financial pressures can appear overwhelming and when urgent steps need to be taken.

Ambuja is based in our London office but can support you nationally.