Alex Morris
Alex is an Associate in the Restructuring & Insolvency team.
He advises across the spectrum of participants in restructuring and insolvency including directors, shareholders, insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, and security trustees. He excels at simplifying and evaluating complex problems to deliver solutions for clients.
Alex specialises in security, insolvency sales, interim applications, insolvency claims, and competing interests in a fund. He regularly advises on the conduct of insolvent estates from appointment to dissolution, and on the risks to current or former company management arising out of a prospective or extant formal insolvency proceeding.
He joined Edwin Coe in January 2024 following training and qualification at a city London law firm.
EXPERIENCE
Alex’s experience includes:
Advising the successful appellant in Manolete v White [2024] EWCA Civ 1418, where the Court of Appeal reversed the existing position to hold that occupational pensions are protected from injunctions requiring them to be drawn down so as to be available to creditors for enforcement purposes.
Advised the prospective applicant on an application pursuant to Paragraph 16 and 81 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 to challenge the validity of the appointment of administrators on the basis of defects in the validity of security and appointment documents, and an alleged ulterior motive on the part of the appointing charge-holder.
Drafting, advising and speaking on applications to fix, vary, or increase the basis of an insolvency office-holder’s remuneration.
Preparing and challenging various applications for validation orders and presenting and defending winding-up petition proceedings, including injunctions to restrain presentation and advertisement.
Preparing and advising on court applications for administration orders, including on a successful contested administration application in view of a connected-party pre-packaged sale.
Advising an individual as to possession proceedings brought by a prominent financial institution in light of a defectively witnessed legal mortgage and the application of Section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989.
Advising trustees in bankruptcy on possession and sale applications including as to estoppel, equitable adjustments, the interpretation of Section 238A of the Insolvency Act 1986 and exceptional circumstances.
Advising a group of companies on the application of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and reliance upon general licences issued by the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation.