What is an Individual Voluntary Arrangement [IVA]?
An IVA is an agreement with unsecured creditors to compromise on the funds owed to creditor sand/ or agree a period over which some or all their debt will be settled. It is a formal insolvency procedure under the Insolvency Act 1986 and should provide a better outcome for creditors than Bankruptcy. The legal effect of an IVA is to freeze your existing creditors to allow you to deal with them in a controlled manner through an agreed plan [“the Proposal”].The Proposal needs 75% in value of unsecured creditors to make it binding on all unsecured creditors.
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We will assist in the preparation of the IVA Proposal be put to the creditors. Where the individual or partners are trading a business, we will also help prepare, if required, the financial projections, including (cash flow and forecast profit & loss to be included in the Proposal. Where necessary we shall speak and sometimes meet with the business’s bankers and other key creditors, including HMRC.
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