Insolvency advice in Sussex

How we help Sussex companies

Sussex is a county of small companies, and small companies feel a single bad debt immediately. Most of the directors who call us are not in trouble because of bad management. They are in trouble because one customer stopped paying, one contract went wrong, or one year of rising costs ate a thin margin.

Whatever brought you to this point, the first job is to find out how much time you actually have. Deadlines in this work are real: 21 days on a statutory demand, a matter of days before a petition is advertised, and a bank account that usually freezes when it is.

Then we look at the four routes, and tell you which are genuinely open. Michael gives you that in writing so you can think about it away from the phone.

The local business mix

From Chichester and Worthing along to Brighton, Lewes, Eastbourne and Hastings, the pattern is tourism and hospitality on the coast, agriculture and food production inland, construction throughout, and a large number of professional and digital firms that moved out of London and stayed.

Coastal hospitality has its own rhythm: a weak summer shows up as an unpayable autumn VAT bill. Rural and food businesses carry heavier equipment finance, which changes what a restart would need to buy. Both are common conversations here.

How meetings work

Sussex is covered from Horsham, which is within reach of most of the county. Michael will travel to meet you where that makes sense, or you can come to the office, or use Zoom.

We do not list a street address for Sussex as a whole, because the office is in Horsham. You deal with the same adviser wherever in the county you are.