Restart after bankruptcy, IT handover checklist
The administrator decides what you can take. Until that agreement is signed, everything belongs to the old entity, including the mailbox.
Try this first
- 1Do not log into old systems until the administrator gives formal permission. Otherwise you are legally in the wrong, however awkward when business needs to keep moving.
- 2With the administrator make a list of what transfers: domain names, mailboxes, customer data, source code, licences, hardware. Do not assume it all moves automatically.
- 3As a new entity, register your own domain, your own mail tenant, your own accounting tenant. Do not build on top of the old tenant, which is tied to the bankrupt party.
- 4Tell customers explicitly that the restart is a new legal entity with a new bank account, new IBAN, possibly a new email address. In writing, not just verbally.
- 5Set forwarders on the old domains only after the administrator has signed the handover. Until then those domains are not yours.
When to bring us in
A restart almost always needs a serious conversation with your accountant and legal counsel, and we will join in. The IT side is rarely the hardest part; the legal timing around data and customer relationships is.
See also
- First IT setup as a freelancer, what do you actually needNot everything at once. One laptop, a mailbox on your own domain, a password manager, a backup. That covers the first year.
- Hiring your first employee, what IT to arrange before day oneLaptop, account, mailbox, access to the right folders. In that order, not all of it at 9 a.m. on day one.
- Moving to a new office, IT checklistInternet and power have the longest lead times. Plan at least three months out, not three weeks.
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