What is administration?

What is administration? What does it mean to appoint an administrator and how does it work? Who can appoint an administrator? What is a pre pack administration ? How do you do an administration followed by CVA?

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These pages and guides will help you answer these questions and learn all about the Administration tool.

This page contains a simple guide and further links to more detailed guides to this insolvency mechanism – read down the page or print it off for easy reading later.

What is Administration - a Simple Guide

Administration is a very powerful process for control, where a company is insolvent and facing serious threats from creditors. The Court may appoint a licensed insolvency practitioner as Administrator, this places a moratorium around the company and stops all legal actions, (lots of technical stuff required for this! if you want to know - see longer guides).

The Administration must have a purpose and the Government encourages the use of company rescuemechanisms after Administration.

Under the Administration option it is possible for the company and its directors (or a creditor like the bank) to apply to the court to put the company into Administration through a streamlined process by applying to the High Court.

But the law requires that any finance provider (like a bank or lender), with the appropriate security, is contacted and the aims of the administration be discussed and approved. The finance provider must have a fixed and floating charge (usually under a debenture) and the charge holder will need to give permission for the process to go ahead. Five days clear notice is required.

Useful Guides to Administration:

Administration Detailed Guide - How the process works in detail.
Administration Flowcharts - All you need to know about the various Administration options process in a picture format
What is Administration FAQ's – Frequently asked questions from our users.
Administration Case Studies – examples of administration case studies
Administration versus CVA What's best for you? Read this for pros and cons of each tool.
Pre-Packaged Administration - Our new guide to the pre-pack administration tool.
Case Study for Pre-pack Administration - Lean how a recruitment company was restructured using pre pack admin.

New Guide to VAT Security Deposits - if you start again as new company it may be required to pay a deposit against future VAT liabilities. ESSENTIAL READING.

What is a Pre-pack Administration or Administration Pre-Pack sale?

Currently the pre packaged administration sale is a very popular method, although there is increasing media coverage of creditors dismay at seeing their "debt dumped" by a former customer.
The company prepares itself to enter administration and sell its assets to a new company ("Newco") or to an existing 3rd party company. This is a very powerful, far reaching process that can protect the BUSINESS, but usually the old company (Oldco) is liquidated afterwards. See Pre-Packaged Administration - our new guide to the pre-pack administration tool for more information or call Keith Steven now on 07974 086779 to discuss how pre pack administration may or may not work for your company?

What is Administration followed by CVA

This is less common than the Government would like to see. Basically the company enters admin to get protection from creditors. The administrator works with the company's directors to produce his/her administration proposals. Once these are accepted the administrator hands control back to the company's board. This is powerful tool though expensive and directors are not in control during the administration period.  We have a more detailed page on the administration process

Got questions? What is company administration? What does going into administration mean? What is administration pre-pack? How does a company go into pre pack administration? For answers to all these questions read our guides or call us now on 01289 309431 or 0800 9700539. Our trained, high quality advisors will help you.

Employees Rights in Administration- Our new guide for employees affected by administration.