Petra van Dijk

Petra leads Spratt Endicott’s Insolvency team, and is a member of the Dispute Resolution Team. She has a Dutch law degree and qualified as a solicitor in 2000. Petra joined Spratt Endicott in 2011 and was promoted to Senior Associate in 2021.

Petra provides advice on a broad range of commercial disputes, including those of a contractual and commercial nature; involving intellectual property rights; and shareholder and partnership disputes.

Petra deals with all aspects of insolvency related matters, her experience includes:

• applying for administration orders on behalf of insolvent companies and creditors
• negotiating administration and liquidation business and asset sale agreements
• partnership insolvency
• advising on Company & Individual Voluntary Arrangements
• bankruptcy and winding-up petitions
• injunctions to restrain presentation and advertisement of winding-up petitions
• applications to set aside statutory demands
• validation applications
• breach of directors’ duties claims, including misfeasance and wrongful trading
• preference and transactions at an undervalue claims
• bankruptcy annulment proceedings
• suspension of discharge applications
• claims involving the matrimonial home and possession proceedings
• retention o f title issues
• enforcement of personal guarantees
• company restoration
• asset tracing and recovery, including freezing injunctions
• debt recovery

Petra has extensive experience of acting for insolvency practitioners, companies, directors and individuals.