Natasha Dzameh - Insolvency

Natasha has a broad range of experience in corporate and personal insolvency disputes including complicated matters where the issues require knowledge of her other practice areas. She also accepts instructions in relation to international corporate law and insolvency.

Natasha has produced seven insolvency practice notes concerning general partnerships and limited partnerships for LexisPSL as one of their restructuring & insolvency experts. Read more here.

Her experience includes:

• A c.£1.65m insolvency matter involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duties by LPA receivers.
• Acting for the trustee in bankruptcy in proceedings before the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), Land Registration Division. An application had been made to register a restriction against a property shortly prior to its sale with the bankrupt being adjudged bankrupt after the sale. Neither the bankrupt nor the purchaser were aware of the sale. Applicant claimed a beneficial interest arising out of a resulting or constructive trust or proprietary estoppel.
• Advising on indemnity and subrogation in respect of a guarantee provided to an individual who had since died and had been declared bankrupt during her lifetime.
• A claim for rent arrears against a large British retailer subject to a CVA. Concerned arguments over insurance coverage, operation of a cesser clause and frustration due to COVID in respect of non-payment of rent. Involved similar arguments to Bank of New York Mellon (International) Ltd v Cine-UK Ltd [2021] EWHC 1013 (QB). Natasha advised prior to that decision and the other side capitulated and settled the dispute upon the filing of Natasha’s skeleton argument post-Mellon.
• Applications for restoration of companies to the register for various reasons e.g. to recover cash assets which have vested bona vacantia.
• An application for disclosure of documents used in other proceedings in the Chancery Division, Companies Court involving the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and a company in liquidation which managed a fund in excess of £100m.
• An application for deferment of dissolution in which she successfully argued that the dissolution date used by Companies House involved an incorrect interpretation of section 201(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986.
• Bankruptcy matters including: annulment of bankruptcy orders; bankruptcy petitions; charging orders post-bankruptcy; disputes concerning sums owed after discharge; disputes concerning the extent of a bankrupt’s assets including beneficial interests in property; suspension of discharge from bankruptcy; transactions at an undervalue; and trustees’ applications for formal examination of the bankrupt.
• Partnership liability following the bankruptcy of a partner.
• Setting aside statutory demands.
• Winding up proceedings including injunctions in respect of winding-up petitions.