Fraudulent trading risks in insolvency and corporate restructuring cases

Jonathan Fisher QC (jf@brightlinelaw.co.uk) is Lead Counsel at Bright Line Law (https://brightlinelaw.co.uk/)

Pushed to the edge by the pandemic, some businesses may have carried on trading, perhaps supported by UK Government funding, in the knowledge that bankruptcy is a real prospect and their creditors would then go unpaid. Jonathan Fisher QC of Bright Line Law sets out the criminal offences engaged by such conduct and urges anti-money laundering professionals to red-flag and train for the risk.