Recent content by Jessica8789

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    Goodwill purchase from liquidating company

    Sorry I don’t follow why you say the old Still have the cliente list. The database of Customers belongs to the old company. that’s been confirmed as one of the things that’s being sold by the liquidator, amongst the assets. This is quite usual. She’d be committing data breaches amongst other...
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    Goodwill purchase from liquidating company

    I’m really sorry, but your answer misses one point; that the insolvency rules require there to be a 12 month solid period of trading in the immediate run-up to the date of liquidation for her to be allowed to trade, using the same or similar name. There has not been a full 12 months of trading...
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    Goodwill purchase from liquidating company

    Nope, the owner of new co is the same as the owner of old co and so they could definitely not keep using those assets of old co, while running new co. Unless new co bought those assets. After the sale of them - to me - those assets now only belong to the purchaser (ie me). It’s intriguing and...
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    Goodwill purchase from liquidating company

    Thank you 🙏 I actually have a friend who used to practise law, meaning I’d not incur any costs for his services to run the action. So as long as we ensured it would be below the small claim threshold, the costs would not be that much at all. I just need to formulate a legal basis for the claim...
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    Goodwill purchase from liquidating company

    Hi and thanks for your reply! Yes I’ve spoken to the liquidator and he raised this as a possible claim I would have, n the event I bought the goodwill. I just struggle to what the legal claim would be. The director has plainly passed all the money received on those contracts - which she...
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    Goodwill purchase from liquidating company

    Hi all, I’m looking to buy the assets - including the goodwill - from the liquidator of a competitor company (“old co”) which entered liquidation a month ago My concern is that the director of old co has been trading that entity since late 2023 using another company she also owns (“new co”)...