Bimal is the head of the firm’s Insolvency Department. He qualified as a solicitor advocate with higher rights of audience in civil litigation in 2012. After working at a boutique litigation law firm in Middle Temple, London, Bimal joined Grant Saw Solicitors in 2016.
Bimal’s expertise lies in contentious insolvency matters. He has significant experience in assisting individuals and companies facing insolvency as well as assisting creditors in recovering sums owed to them.
He is regularly instructed by individuals and companies who have been served with statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions or winding-up petitions. His tenacious approach to insolvency petitions has a resulted in many successful outcomes for his clients.
Bimal is frequently instructed to assist clients who have been made bankrupt and require guidance navigating their way through the bankruptcy process. This can include:
- Attending Official Receiver or trustee in bankruptcy interviews with clients;
- Assisting clients with completing questionnaires or addressing queries raised by trustees in bankruptcy;
- Challenging the bankruptcy order by appeal;
- Annulment of the bankruptcy order;
- Providing legal advice in connection with applications for possession and sale of properties;
- Challenging the remuneration of a trustee in bankruptcy; and
- Advising on Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) proposals.
He has a keen interest in actions being brought against former directors or officers of companies and is regularly instructed to either bring or defend actions to recover overdrawn directors’ loan accounts, misfeasance actions, claims for preferential treatment of creditors, claims relating to transactions at an undervalue, claims relating to transactions defrauding creditors, wrongful trading actions; and directors disqualification proceedings.
Alongside assisting clients with insolvency matters, Bimal is well versed in commercial litigation, business disputes, property litigation matters, landlord and tenant disputes, co-ownership disputes and contested probate matters.
Bimal’s recent work includes:
- Successfully challenging a bankruptcy petition whether the petitioner was seeking £680,000. In this instance, Bimal was also successful in recovering his client’s costs from the petitioner.
- Applying for and obtaining an order to restrain presentation of a winding-up petition. Bimal’s client was also awarded the costs of its application.
- Successfully obtaining a validation order for a company who provided care services to the elderly and vulnerable people.
- Securing annulment of a bankruptcy order which was made 26 years before the annulment application.
- Favourably negotiating settlement of statutory demands, winding-up petitions and bankruptcy petitions resulting from rental arrears of commercial leases.
- Successfully applying to set-aside a statutory demand which sought a £494,000 from Bimal’s client. Bimal was also able to recover his client’s costs.
- Securing dismissal of a winding-up petition for a construction company with numerous trade creditors.
- Successfully defending a misfeasance claim valued at £250,000 brought by a liquidator, by demonstrating that a former director acted reasonably and honestly.
Bimal’s interests include travelling, movies, sport and socialising with friends and family.
