This year marks the 30^th anniversary of the introduction of the examinership framework in Ireland and given the current challenges facing businesses, 2020 could be the year that the process comes into its own to assist struggling but otherwise viable companies and, very importantly, to maintain employment.

Brexit, inconclusive election results and an unprecedented partial lockdown in an effort to combat against the spread of COVID-19 has created enormous challenges for certain companies who had been thriving in an erstwhile rapidly improving economy.