Morgan Bowen
Morgan has over 17 years’ experience advising directors, creditors, insolvency practitioners, investors and other stakeholders at all stages of the decline and recovery curves across multiple sectors. This includes advising on directors' duties on insolvency, distressed asset sales/purchases, restructuring solutions, advice on security enhancement, insolvency investigations and litigation, and mitigation of future insolvency risk in transactions.
Morgan has extensive experience across multiple sectors, including healthcare, real estate, financial services and construction.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2003 as barrister; 2010 as solicitor
Experience
- CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP (2017 - 2019)
- Nabarro LLP (2011 - 2017)
- Moon Beever (2005 - 2011)
Membership
- R3
- Law Society
- Middle Temple
1 Contributions by Morgan Bowen
PRACTICE NOTES
Insolvency and Education Administration for Further Education and Sixth Form College Corporations (England and Wales)
This Practice Note outlines the insolvency regime brought in by the Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (TAFEA 2017), the Further Education Bodies (Insolvency) Regulations 2019 (FEBR 2019), SI 2019/138, and the Education Administration Rules 2018 (EAR 2018), SI 2018/1135, which took effect on 31 January 2019. TAFEA 2017 establishes the structure of an insolvency framework applying to further education and sixth form colleges in England and Wales. It also introduces a special administration regime designed to protect the interests of learners where a college becomes insolvent.
Background
The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (FHEA 1992) created a new further education sector providing full-time education for 16–18 year olds and introduced a distinct corporate legal entity, the ‘further education corporation’. The Association of Colleges reports that over 95% of institutions in the sector are either further education corporations or sixth form college corporations founded under FHEA 1992. The Education Act 2011 (EA 2011) broadened the powers of further education and sixth form colleges and conferred greater financial autonomy. In 2015, a series of area reviews was undertaken, underpinned by the need to review the existing...
Restructuring & Insolvency
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