Personal Insolvency Solicitors in Chelmsford

 

Financial concerns can be overwhelming when you are unsure how to resolve them or which way to turn, but our Personal Insolvency Solicitors in Chelmsford can be there to advise you about the right course of action and the options available to you.

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Scott Porter

Partner, Solicitor & Head of Insolvency and Debt Recovery

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Support from expert Insolvency and Bankruptcy Solicitors

Whatever financial issues you are facing, our Insolvency team is the largest in the region and on hand to offer guidance on all matters. We can represent you if you’ve taken receipt of a Statutory Demand or Bankruptcy Petition, are facing pressure from creditors or even if you’re considering declaring yourself bankrupt or entering into an Individual Voluntary Arrangement.

Meet our Personal Insolvency Solicitors in Chelmsford

With a career history of working for a large litigation firm in London, Scott Porter joined Ellisons in 2016 and specialises in both personal and corporate insolvency with a particular expertise in contentious insolvency and investigations. After qualifying as a solicitor in 2009, Scott joined Kennedys in the City of London working in their insolvency, banking and commercial litigation team, acting for many key accounts including large corporations and government departments on complex banking and insolvency litigation issues. Now a Partner at Ellisons, Scott works in the firm’s Dispute Resolution department and is Head of Insolvency, covering specialisms such as fraud, financial services litigation, debt recovery and commercial litigation. Ranked in the 2018 Chambers and Partners guide as a Recognised Practitioner, Scott’s clients include large corporate entities, financial services firms and banks, insolvency practitioners, accountants, private companies and individuals. As a well-connected and highly respected solicitor in this area, Scott is a member of R3, the Association for Business Recovery Professionals and a member of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association.

Make the right decisions to help relieve the financial strain on your shoulders by getting in touch with our Insolvency and debt recovery specialists today.

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Pragmatic and Practical advice

Our team is large enough to provide our clients with a full range of expert advice upon all aspects of commercial property, whilst remaining small enough to provide a personal service to our clients, many of whom have enjoyed using our services for many years. With specialists in property matters, dispute resolution, funding, planning and commercial agreements, we offer a fully integrated service to our clients. Our aim is to work in partnership with our clients and their professional advisers, in order to achieve our clients’ goals and to seek solutions where others may only see problems. We offer pragmatic and practical advice, with a view to ensuring that our clients are able to take well informed commercial decisions. We believe that it is this philosophy that has led to the continued growth of the team and a record of client retention that we are very
proud of.

Our clients include residential and commercial developers, individual and corporate investors, charities, financial institutions, public authorities and trading business, purchasing or leasing premises for their own use.

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