Remnants / Insolvency & distress

A distressed IP sale gets the worst price. Your data doesn’t have to.

When time is against you, valuing and negotiating IP is slow and expensive. The company’s residual data can be normalized, anonymized and sold in weeks instead, returning money to creditors and shareholders.

Nothing moves without the estate’s sign off.

The problem

Selling IP in distress means selling under pressure.

The conventional route is slow, and the clock works against you the whole way.

Valuing IP is slow and expensive.

Valuations, buyer negotiations and legals can run for months while the estate pays to wait.

Distress hands buyers the leverage.

Buyers know the clock is against the company, and they price the deal accordingly.

The delay never stops costing.

Every week is professional fees, insurance and running costs coming out of the pot.

The alternative

Normalize the data. Repackage it. Sell it.

The company’s residual operational data is a distinct asset. Prepared properly, it sells on its own timeline instead of the deal’s.

The data is a separate asset.

CRM records, financial history, support tickets and communications carry value on their own, apart from the company’s IP.

It moves in weeks, not months.

No valuation committee and no licensing package to argue over. Anonymization and packaging are the main work, and we handle them.

Cash back to the estate.

Proceeds flow to creditors through the insolvency process, or back to the company and its shareholders where it is not in liquidation.

The same data AI labs pay for, without the long-winded IP negotiation.

Process

Fast by design, compliant throughout.

You or the appointed practitioner stay in control at every step.

Step 01

Confirm the estate

We work with you or the appointed practitioner. Nothing moves without sign off.

Step 02

Inventory

We map what the company holds and identify what has commercial value.

Step 03

Anonymize & package

Personal data removed, cleaned and packaged, with the GDPR process documented.

Step 04

Sell & distribute

A competitive process with AI labs and qualified buyers. Proceeds go to the estate.

A 6% success fee on the completed sale total. Nothing upfront, and no fee at all if the data does not sell.

Who we work with

Built for both sides of a distress situation.

Insolvency practitioners and liquidators

The data is treated as an asset of the estate, handled with a documented audit trail. Nothing transfers without your sign off, and proceeds are distributed through the insolvency process.

Founders and directors

A data sale can run alongside or before an IP sale, returning cash without waiting for the wider deal to close. You stay in control of what is sold and when.

Personal data is removed before anything is offered. Every step is documented for directors, liquidators and buyers.

Is your business still trading? We also broker anonymised data from operating businesses for AI training.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Can a data sale happen during liquidation?

Yes. The data is treated as an asset of the estate. We work directly with the appointed liquidator or administrator, and proceeds flow to creditors through the insolvency process.

How fast is the turnaround?

An indicative valuation comes back in days. Because there is no licensing package to negotiate over, a data sale typically closes far faster than a distressed IP transaction.

Does this get in the way of a wider sale of the company?

No. We scope the sale with you or the practitioner so it sits alongside any wider transaction, and nothing transfers until the legal basis is confirmed and signed off.

What does it cost?

Nothing upfront. We charge a 6% success fee on the completed sale total, and only when a sale completes. If the data does not sell, nothing is owed.