The UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020. The transitional period, during which EU law continued to apply to the UK and the UK was, in many respects, still treated as an EU member state, ended at 11 p.m. on 31 December 2020 (IPCD). At the 11th hour, the EU and the UK agreed to terms of a...

It is almost a cliché in business circles that the numbers of formal insolvencies start to increase when an economy is coming out of recession. However, since the 2008 financial crash, the numbers of formal insolvencies have been declining. Initially, perhaps, this was because many companies were...