Tina Kyriakides successfully acted in the High Court case of Styles & Wood Group Ltd (in liquidation) [2026] EWHC 128 (Ch).

In this case Judge Greenwood rejected an application by two former directors to set aside a June 2023 agreement under which the company’s liquidators, Derek Hyslop and Trevor Oates of Ernst & Young, assigned pre-insolvency claims against them to Knaresborough Investments Ltd, an entity controlled by the group’s former ultimate owner.  The Liquidators succeeded in their arguments that the applicant directors had no locus to challenge the assignment and also that the conduct of the liquidators in assigning the claims was not perverse.

Tina was instructed by Addleshaw Goodard to act for the companies Liquidators Ernst & Young.

Read more about the case and the full judgment here: High Court backs liquidators’ sale of director claims to investor