Hanh Nguyen#13226

Hanh Nguyen

Hanh advises insolvency practitioners and other corporate and individual clients on all aspects of corporate and personal restructuring and insolvency matters, both non-contentious and contentious advice.

On the non-contentious side, Hanh acts for a wide range of stakeholders including insolvency practitioners (in the context of restructurings, formal insolvencies, bankruptcies and in respect of advisory work), corporate entities, litigation funders, shareholders, directors of insolvent estates and secured and unsecured creditors.

Hanh regularly advises office holders on the sales of the insolvent company’s business and assets as well as advising buyers of distressed businesses. Hanh has advised on many high-profile deals reported in the press (Oak Furnitureland, Karen Millen, Vidal Sassoon, Selazar, bio-bean and Douglas & Gordon,) and also carries on significant non-formal insolvency work such as advising boards of directors and shareholders/investors of insolvent or nearing-insolvent companies on their rights, duties and obligations from an insolvency perspective. In addition, Hanh acts for a number of equity lenders on receiverships and other enforcement methods.

On the contentious side, she has significant experience dealing with contentious matters including antecedent recovery actions in both personal and corporate insolvencies, debt recovery (including enforcement of non-performing loans) and directors’ misfeasance. Hanh led on the high-profile and heavily litigious liquidation of BetIndex Limited.

Hanh is an associate member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association (IPA) and currently sits on the IPA Finance & Risk Committee.

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2004

Experience

  • Searle & Associates Lawyers [Sydney, Australia] (January 2000 - September)
  • Salans LLP [London, UK] (April 2008 - March 2010)
  • Speechly Bircham LLP [London, UK] (April 2010 - October 2014)

Membership

  • International Bar Association
  • INSOL Europe
  • Insolvency Practitioners Association
  • International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation
  • R3

Qualification

  • Double Degree - Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Bachelor of Commerce (Majored in Accounting and Finance) (1998 - 2004)

Education

  • University of Sydney (1998 - 2004)

1 Contributions by Hanh Nguyen

Bankruptcy and Divorce in England and Wales: Effects on Financial Remedies, Trustees’ Powers, Void Dispositions, Annulment and Forum Strategy
PRACTICE NOTES
Bankruptcy and Divorce in England and Wales: Effects on Financial Remedies, Trustees’ Powers, Void Dispositions, Annulment and Forum Strategy
R&I spotlight on matrimonial law Bankruptcy specialists frequently face circumstances where bankruptcy and matrimonial proceedings unfold in tandem. In some cases, one spouse commences bankruptcy with the purpose of undermining the other spouse’s financial claims arising on divorce, or to defeat those claims. Principal legislation The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) sets the framework governing the divorce regime in England and Wales. It was later amended and updated by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (DDSA 2020), introducing the concept of ‘no fault’ divorce for fresh applications formally lodged on or after 6 April 2022. For applications initiated before 6 April 2022, divorce could proceed only where one party alleged the marriage had irretrievably broken down, relying upon ‘facts’ such as the other’s adultery, unreasonable behaviour or abandonment, or where the parties had lived apart for two years and consented to divorce. Defended proceedings led to a public trial, requiring the applicant to prove the factual basis underpinning the divorce. Since 6 April 2022, under DDSA 2020, an applicant may seek a divorce simply by filing a statement that the marriage has irretrievably broken down. No proof is required, and the respondent can...
Restructuring & Insolvency
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