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  • Lex Greensill banned as company director for nine years after multi-billion-pound collapse

    Business

    The UK Insolvency Service has confirmed that financier Lex Greensill will face a nine-year ban from serving as a company director, after he signed a legally binding disqualification undertaking to resolve long-running enforcement proceedings just days before a scheduled High Court trial. The Insolvency Service, which opened its probe into him in 2022, filed a [...]

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  • Lex Greensill seeks to throw out director ban

    Legal

    The government’s bid to disqualify the boss of collapsed lender Greensill Group from directing companies in the UK for 12 years should be thrown out as there “cannot be a fair trial”, the High Court has been told. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) began proceedings against Lex Greensill in 2024 after the Insolvency [...]

    Lex Greensill speaking at a business conference, wearing a suit and tie, gesturing with his hand while discussing financia...
  • Auditor MHA queried source of funds in Sanjeev Gupta-owned firms before resigning

    Business

    MHA queried the source of funds for various intercompany transactions before resigning from an engineering firm owned by metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta, Morning Wire can reveal. The London-listed accounting firm has stepped down as auditor of Wolverhampton-based Clydesdale Engineering, an automotive and defence manufacturer owned by Gupta’s Liberty Steel Group, part of his GFG Alliance [...]

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  • Administrators of Greensill Capital hit several former directors with lawsuit

    April 30, 2025

    Administrators for the collapsed British financial firm Greensill Capital have launched fresh legal action against several former directors

  • UBS offers to repay former Credit Suisse clients 90 per cent of Greensill funds

    June 17, 2024

    Swiss banking giant UBS has offered to repay former Credit Suisse clients 90 per cent of the funds they invested with specialist finance firm Greensill Capital, which collapsed in 2021.

  • Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance still owes Greensill Capital nearly £500m

    April 17, 2024

    The administrators for Greensill Capital are still owed around $587.2m (£472m) from Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, it has been revealed.

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