I am a Partner in the Disputes team within Lewis Silkin’s Manchester office with a particular specialism in dealing with insolvency disputes and restructuring. I have over a decade of experience handling some of the most complex and high value insolvency and commercial disputes in the North West with a particular focus on acting for insolvency practitioners, directors, shareholders, creditors, investors, lenders and charities to assist them to resolve their disputes commercially and efficiently.
On the insolvency side, I handle both contentious and non-contentious work across both personal and corporate insolvency. That includes misfeasance and breach of duty claims, antecedent transaction challenges, wrongful and fraudulent trading, director disqualification proceedings (including making several successful Section 17 applications for relief post disqualification) and trustee in bankruptcy work where significant asset recovery forms a substantial part of my expertise. I’ve also developed experience in contested administrations involving complex property interests, competing creditor classes and court applications to facilitate difficult sales.
I have led numerous multi-disciplinary teams on complex restructurings (both solvent and insolvent) and advised office holders, secured lenders, receivers, directors approaching insolvency and purchasers on pre-pack administration sales. I also have experience with FCA-regulated company insolvencies and Special Administrations as well as advising insolvency practitioners on investigations brought by their regulatory body.
My commercial disputes practice covers the full range of business conflicts from breach of contract and property disputes through to civil fraud, asset tracing, shareholder and director disputes, professional negligence and high value debt recovery work. I am also a qualified mediator and have substantial experience in handling all forms of ADR to resolve disputes effectively.