Expertise

Aziz specialises in contentious insolvency and restructuring and leads the firm's Insolvency Dispute Resolution offering in London.

He represents a wide range of clients, including insolvency practitioners, directors, secured and unsecured creditors, shareholders, financial institutions, and companies facing financial distress. Aziz has extensive experience handling administrations, liquidations, bankruptcies, and restructuring processes across multiple jurisdictions.

Aziz's contentious work spans the full spectrum of insolvency disputes, including claims brought by and against officeholders, fraud, antecedent transactions, asset recovery, and misfeasance. On the restructuring side, Aziz advises on 'in-court' restructuring options, directors' duties in a distressed context and the strategic application of insolvency procedures.

Aziz is a member of R3 and holds the Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency qualification. 

Recent notable experience includes advising:

• An investment fund on instigating complex and novel insolvency processes against multiple debtors
• The officeholders on their disputed application to convert the administration to compulsory liquidation, and associated litigation
• A hedge fund in relation to its opposition to Premier Oil Plc’s proposed schemes of arrangement
• The directors in successfully applying for an administration order in respect of a state-owned bank
• A director in defending substantial claims brought by liquidators concerning an alleged invalid share buyback, misfeasance, transactions defrauding creditors and wrongful trading
• The liquidators of a significant manufacturing group in investigating its assets and advising on the pursuit and resolution of various claims arising in the estate
• Doncasters on the Dundee Holdco administration application and the implementation of its scheme of arrangement via a pre-pack administration sale