Bankruptcy and Insolvency Editing and Proofreading Services

Insolvency documents have an audience most legal writing does not: ordinary creditors. A supplier owed forty thousand dollars, a laid-off employee, a landlord — people who are not lawyers, are reading under a deadline, and must decide whether to vote for a proposal or file a claim. If the circular confuses them, the process stalls and the outcome suffers.

We edit proposals and plans of arrangement, information circulars and creditor communications, proofs of claim and instruction sheets, monitor and trustee reports, statements of affairs, security review memoranda, receivership documents, and court materials in restructuring proceedings. Our editors verify that figures agree between the narrative, the schedules, and the cash-flow projections, that every deadline is stated the same way each time it appears, and that defined terms survive the many drafts these documents go through.

Dates deserve their own pass. Claims bar dates, voting deadlines, and meeting dates appear in several documents at once, and a mismatch between the circular and the notice is the kind of error that generates a court attendance nobody wanted.

Everything is treated as confidential, including material relating to companies not yet public about their position. We make the documents easier for creditors to act on, without softening what they say.