Our full-service team of specialist restructuring and insolvency lawyers acts for corporates and their boards, banks, lenders, financial institutions, private equity, funds, insolvency office-holders, government agencies, creditors and debtors. We also have an established practice specialising in the acquisition and disposal of debt portfolios.

We're ambitious and growing, with expertise across our UK offices. We have the capacity to deal with all instructions, from the largest restructurings, work-outs and formal insolvencies, through to acting for individual creditors and assisting stakeholders.

Our team is supported by highly regarded experts in banking, finance, property, pensions, employment and licensing, all with significant experience and understanding of insolvency law and practice. 

We pride ourselves on taking the time to understand the needs of our clients, before providing clear, straightforward and commercially-minded advice.

Highlights

• Acting for the purchaser of 127 convenience stores saving 1300 jobs following the high profile collapse of the P&H retail group.
• Acting for the joint administrators of a sales and marketing business in successfully defending a very hostile claim in the High Court. A complex and bespoke sealed-bids sales process was designed to complete the sale without risk of challenge resulting in the company and all jobs being saved.
• Advising the Insolvency Service and Official Receiver’s offices, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy involving c1000 instructions each year.
• Acting for the Official Receiver Public Interest Unit as liquidator of 14 companies wound up in the public interest following a prosecution by the FCA against its main director.
• Acting for a high-net-worth individual in successfully defending a high-profile claim brought by the trustee in bankruptcy of her husband in relation to a C£20m residential property in London.