This Insolvency Professional Practice Guide is designed to give apprentice solicitors a clear and thorough understanding of the current insolvency practice and procedure. In particular, it will delve more intensely into the many areas of Insolvency, such as personal insolvency, company insolvency, compulsory liquidations, voluntary liquidations, receiverships, alternatives to winding up, and international insolvency. The guide is designed to equip one to advise and act for liquidators, receivers, and examiners; for directors and shareholders of insolvent entities; for the company itself; and for third parties such as creditors, banks, employees of insolvent entities. Insolvency comprehensively deals with the practice issues most frequently encountered by apprentices in this area and incorporates recent developments in law and practice. It explains the principles of insolvency practice clearly and concisely by experts in the field and will prove to be an essential text for both apprentices and practitioners in this field.