The Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Act 2021 allows the government to investigate directors of dissolved companies in addition to directors of companies in an insolvency process. This is to increase the options available to recover bounce back loan debts. In this podcast episode, Maria Koureas-Jones and Stephen Downie look at the options available to government and discuss the implications for borrowers and directors.

Company directors are bound by a series of duties, as set out in the Companies Act 2006 and at common law. Failure to adhere fully to those duties can be devasting, not just for the company but for the director personally. In this episode, Stephen Downie and Maria Koureas-Jones look at the main duties of a director, how things can go wrong and ways of minimising personal risk to the directors.

In this episode, Stephen Downie and Maria Koureas-Jones highlight the personal risks to directors of being paid via a director's loan account, providing insights to help directors ask their accountants the right questions and make more informed decisions about how they are paid.

In this podcast, Francis Wilks & Jones partners Stephen Downie and Maria Koureas-Jones discuss how ending the government's pandemic-related grant and loan schemes will directly impact companies and their directors. Now that winding up petitions can once again be presented against companies and directors are being made accountable for their actions during this time, there are a number of risks for directors and their advisors to consider. Stephen and Maria look at what they are and how to either avoid or deal with them.