Standout UK Insolvency Cases of 2025 and Their Impact for Insolvency Practitioners in 2026

Richard Obank of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner predicts that UK insolvency litigation in 2026 will be increasingly shaped by how claims are funded, with practitioners needing to adapt to post-PACCAR constraints through multiple-based or hybrid return structures, front-loaded investigations, tighter pleading and limitation discipline, and greater scrutiny of funding arrangements, as funding strategy becomes central to larger, more complex, and more aggressively contested recovery actions.