Now the fighting between the firm and its biggest shareholder has stopped, Interserve will be hoping for a spell out of the City pages and the spotlight falls elsewhere. While Interserve's collapse into administration doesn't quite have the feel of the corporate disaster that was Carillion, it is, nonetheless, an ignominious end for a firm which has roots stretching back to the 1880s. Interserve will now be hoping that it can quietly start a rebuilding process over the next few months. It is now in the hands of a group of lenders who will be wanting, somehow, to get their money back. It's likely the make-up of the board will change in the coming months and more loss-making parts sold off or shut down completely.
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