- Creditors are frozen by the Section 1A Company Voluntary Arrangement
- CVA - Responsibility of directors in a Section 1A CVA
- Section 1A Insolvency Act 1986 - Disclosure Requirements
- Creditors not included in the CVA proposal
- What does a Nominee of a Company Voluntary Arrangement have to do?
- CVA Creditors Meeting - Section 1A Insolvency Act 1986
- Voting Rights in a CVA under Section 1A Insolvency Act 1986
- Supervisors Duties in a Section 1A CVA
- A draft Company Voluntary Arrangement Proposal for you to look at
- Costs of preparing and operating under a Company Voluntary Arrangement
- Concluding the Company Voluntary Arrangement - The end is nigh!
- Banks and other secured creditors in a Company Voluntary Arrangement
- Landlords no longer protected from a Company Voluntary Arrangement
- Petitioning Creditors
- Company Voluntary Arrangements and Preferential Creditors - Definition
- Benefits to unsecured Creditors in the newer type of CVA
Enormous Power granted to directors to freeze creditors taking enforcement actions
From the 1st January 2003 Directors of a company that propose the newer type of Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) can gain the benefit of a freeze on all creditors actions - even before the creditors have an opportunity to consider the Company Voluntary Arrangement proposal that is to be made.
This freezing effect is brought about by section 1 of the Insolvency Act 2000 - That section was brought into force on the 1st January 2003. That Section has since been incorporated into The Insolvency Act 1986 as Section 1A of that Act - and is therefore now also known as a Section 1A Company Voluntary Arrangement or a CVA with a freeze on creditors actions.
The freezing period is also called the period of the moratorium.
This breathing space period provided by that freezing of actions by aggressive creditors enables the directors to work with their accountants, insolvency practitioners or other advisors, to prepare a plan for the future. This plan is then reflected in the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) proposal.
The plan might involve:
- monthly payments to creditors over a period of months or years and/or
- a reduction in staff with the redundancy entitlements being first paid by the government and then repaid to the government by the company over a period and/or
- the closure of an outlet. and or/
- the dropping of a product or service
- etc. etc.
This freeze on creditors actions provides a real possibility of the governments intentions to bring about a "rescue culture" being achievable in many matters where, otherwise, a liquidation would have been the end result.
But directors cannot have "power" without "responsibility". The directors responsibility is to live up to each and every word of their Company Voluntary Arrangement proposal. Make sure therefore that you are happy with the wording of your company's proposal. The law does not say what you should propose or how you should propose it.
For insolvency advice on wording and other fundamental matters contact Purnells Insolvency Practitioners for a FREE INITIAL MEETING.