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Private equity investor agrees £25m settlement of Pensions Regulator claim

09 Mar 2021
HIG Group recently agreed a settlement with The Pensions Regulator (tPR) following a challenge to its 2011 pre-pack administration of Silentnight, the UK bed manufacturer. TPR's case was that HIG acquired the employers' bank debt and used its position as lender to bring about the unnecessary insolvency of the employers, then taking steps to buy the employers' business at an undervalue as part of the administration process that followed.