MC – June 2025

I started a company during the pandemic and it grew steadily for three years before, abruptly hitting a period of sharp revenue downturn in 2023. With a lot of fixed costs I simply could not move fast enough to manage the situation and it was very stressful. Eventually I found a solution to move on … Read more

Trade Supplier Personal Guarantees on Business Account Application Forms: ScrewFix and Heating Plumbing Supplies (HPS)

A year on from our previous update on trade suppliers, and the state of play remains very mixed. While the vast majority of trade suppliers have made efforts, since 2008, to reduce ambiguity when it comes to the inclusion of personal guarantees (PGs) within application forms for business trade credit accounts, others appear to be … Read more

JM – June 2025

Personal Guarantee are incredible! When my limited company went into administration I was left with a loan of £45k with a personal guarantee that I was unable to fulfil the £4K a month repayments for. Personal Guarantee negotiated on my behalf and got the total repayment amount down to less than half of the outstanding … Read more

RJ – June 2025

Following the liquidation of my limited company, Amex asserted that I was personally liable for an outstanding business credit card debt. I was unaware that the card carried terms making me personally liable for business borrowing on the card. This made an already stressful time even more challenging for me. I’m so pleased that I … Read more

Removal of bank property charges supporting personal guarantees and company debt

We have had good success over the years in removing charges on personal properties that were put in place to support personal guarantees or limited company debt directly while the company was trading. This has been particularly successful where the demand on the personal/ guarantee charge, or the company debt itself defaulted more than 12 … Read more