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Timeline: Robin Barrasford and Halcyon
The reported arrest of Robin Barrasford in Spain is the latest development in a long-running sequence of events involving Barrasford, Alan Bird, and Halcyon-branded companies. Barrasford, pictured above, is a former British police officer and one of the directors linked to the Halcyon Retreat scheme. According to a story published earlier this month in The…
Read MoreAshbrookes Loan Notes Update: Security, Default, and Recovery
Investors and loan note holders in the Ashbrookes Group structure have contacted Insolvency & Law, reporting delayed or missed redemption payments. Reports such as these raise questions about: Ashbrookes marketed its John Street product as a 12% fixed rate, secured-loan note. Investors were introduced to a structure built around a Sunderland development. We reviewed investor…
Read MoreAventurine Climate and WH2025: What the Documents Show…
Publicly available records for energy company Aventurine Climate Ltd (previously known as WH2025 Ltd) raise questions about how investor security: These questions may be relevant because several companies connected to Aventurine’s wider structure have either: Some of these companies include Platinum Energy Solutions Ltd, and: At the time of writing, Platinum Energy Solutions has been…
Read MoreKroll Advisory’s Misguided Block on Creditor Justice
Why Assignments Matter When a company fails, individual creditors often lack the leverage to influence what happens next. By assigning their rights to a specialist like Insolvency & Law, creditors can combine their claims, speak with one voice, and ensure their interests are not sidelined. For loan note holders, this collective mechanism is often the…
Read MoreThe 79th Group Administration: What It Means for You
Over the past few weeks, a wave of The 79th Group companies has collapsed into formal administration, putting millions of pounds of Loan Note Holders capital at risk. If you hold a loan note with any of these companies, the decisions being made right now will determine whether you recover anything at all. Administrators are…
Read MoreHardship for 100,000 SME construction firms
Almost 100,000 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the construction industry faced serious money problems in the first quarter of 2021, a study by business rescue experts Begbies Traynor has revealed. The findings reveal that in the months leading up to 31 March, 96,067 British SME construction firms had either: County court judgments (CCJs) of…
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