Case Studies
SALE OF ASSETS, CONTRACTS AND GOODWILL OF A NORTH OF ENGLAND BASED FACILITIES MANAGEMENT COMPANY FOR OVER £850,000
Williams & Partners Ltd was engaged by the Directors of this north of England facilities management company that was made up of three separate limited companies to market and sell the assets, contracts and goodwill of the business on a pre-pack admin basis. The sale was complicated…
SALE OF ASSETS, CONTRACTS AND GOODWILL OF A LONDON BASED SECURITY COMPANY FOR £210,000
Williams & Partners Ltd was engaged by the retiring Director of this loss-making London based security company to market and sell the assets, contracts and goodwill on a pre-pack administration basis. Due to other similar businesses we had sold, we contacted our database of companies who had…
SALE OF ONLINE FOOTBALL STATISTICS WEBSITE & SOCIAL MEDIA FOR £1,000,000
Williams & Partners was engaged by the Director of one of the leading football statistics websites to market and sell the assets and goodwill on a pre-pack administration basis. In addition to directly contacting worldwide competitor businesses, we placed adverts online with two strategic websites for distressed…
SALE OF LIFT MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS FOR £360,000+
Williams and Partners were instructed to prepare marketing information post-cessation of trade and pre-administration ready for sale post-appointment. Having met with the MD and relevant staff, Williams and Partners contracted directly with and paid 4 key staff members to collate the relevant accounting and administration information necessary to package…
SALE OF FORWARD ORDER RETAIL CONTRACTS FOR £200,000+
Williams and Partners were instructed by the Administrators of a long-established ladies garment manufacturer to seek a purchaser for the assets of the business including all plant and machinery from their 30,000sqf garment packaging warehouse and their forward order book for the current and flowing seasons.
The order book contained…
TRADING OF A RETAIL BUSINESS IN A MAJOR SOUTH EAST SHOPPING MALL
Williams and Partners were engaged by an absentee Director to trade a retail childrenswear business prior to liquidation. A review was made of the two retail locations, one high street and one a major south-east shopping mall. As the period in question was during half-term holidays, the shopping mall…
Valuation of over £1,000,000 of assets seized under a distraint, sale of plant and machinery and freehold of a 35,000 sqf warehouse
Williams and Partners were instructed by the landlord of a 35,000 square foot factory to initially sell the assets of a glass cutting business seized under a bailiffs distraint and secondly to sell the freehold of the building itself.
Due to the specialist nature of the equipment which included one…
Valuation of intellectual property and sale of assets for the pre-pack administration of a leading hair and beauty web site and management of 86 retention of title claims
Williams and Partners were instructed to value the IPR and stock for a pre-pack administration. The IPR consisted of a leading internet based hair and beauty website, various related domain names, a database of 1 million customers and a number of trademarks. The stock, the vast majority of which…
Creditor Realisation of Assets ‘not owned’ by the company
Williams and Partners were instructed to value and sell a large Heidelberg printing press. It was discovered that the machine was subject to a lease purchase finance agreement with the finance division of a major high street bank, who had obtained their own report valuing the press at £70,000,…