Debt Recovery

Debt Recovery

Praesidio Group Debt Recovery Services attempts to recover the debt for you without compromise or delay.

Using Praesidio Group goes one step further than sending a letter of demand. It signals to the person who owes you money that you have decided to hand the matter over to professionals.

This could further strain your business relationship, however sometimes it may be more important to get the money you are owed.

The Debt Recovery Services (DRS) are designed to help you legally recover legitimately owed and unpaid debts, in a way that is efficient, cost effective and with minimal risk.

Our services include:

      • Field visits to make face-to-face contact with debtors
      • Legal action
      • Official letters
      • Professional phone calls
      • Skip tracing to track down the debtors

The Debt Recovery Process & Method

The typical Praesidio Group Debt Recovery Service works on a series of steps to ensure we maximise your financial investment with us to open the opportunity at recovering the debt owed to you.

Traditionally, our debt recovery service will start with a ‘letter of demand’ to your debtor on our letterhead, demanding that the debt is paid by a particular date or legal action may be taken.

If necessary, Praesidio Group will then issue a second, ‘final’ letter of demand or follow up with a ‘phone demand’.

If unsuccessful, you can engage Praesidio Group to further conduct one or several “field visits to make face-to-face contact with debtors” to take legal action on your behalf.

The fee you will pay is negotiated prior to any service agreed upon and or commenced.

Usually commission rates for our debt recovery services vary between 5% and 30% of the value of the debt.

Debt Purchasing & Debt Buying

Our team of expert staff rapidly assess your situation and may buy individual debts or small portfolios.

In some cases, you can sell the debt to us for a small percentage of the debt amount.

Praesidio Group will then pursue the debtor to recover part or all of the money owed. You are not entitled to any of the money we recover.

You may wish to consider this option when you have written off a debt.

Benefits of selling a debt

Debt purchasing offers many benefits, with the overriding benefits to a creditor being:

      • Immediate resolution of your problem
      • Removal of bad debts from a balance sheet
      • Improved cash flow
      • Reduction of time and expense in the collection process
      • Elimination of the risk of paying significant legal fees without assurance of success.
      • Removal of the personal element and discomfort where there may be an ongoing business or personal relationship with the debtor

Our Assessment Process

Before Praesidio Group agrees to pursue or purchase debts, we:

  • Undertake a legal assessment of the debt and the underlying contract
  • Undertake a comprehensive due diligence on all parties involved to
  • Determine viability and legitimacy
  • Require full co-operation and disclosure from you to enable us to undertake our due diligence.
  • Once our enquiries are complete and an offer is made to purchase the debt contracts are prepared by our in-house legal team for the sale. Your business can then write the debt down and claim bad debt relief.

Qualifying debts

The types of debt include but are not limited to:

    • Default on loans including bridging loans
    • Insolvency debts
    • Rent arrears
    • Small claims court debts
    • Trading debts
    • Unpaid goods and services
    • Unsecured loan debts