Insolvency and corporate recovery
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Hall of fameFoot Anstey
Joanne leads our Restructuring and Insolvency offering collaborating with a broad range of businesses, directors, stakeholders and other professional advisors. Her role is focused on opportunities for turnaround rescue and restructure but also involves managing formal insolvency processes. She works closely with distressed equity and debt investors as well as with turnaround professionals and insolvency practitioners. Joanne is regularly found in the board room providing strategic advice to directors of businesses close to insolvency, particularly around their duties and responsibilities when dealing with distress. She also has significant experience advising stakeholders on managing their risk and exposure to businesses in financial difficulty. Joanne and her team are specialists in the investment bank special administration regime overseeing the return of significant values of client monies and custody assets across a portfolio of these cases. Joanne is proud of the Restructuring and Insolvency Team’s approach and says ‘we always try to be accessible, flexible, responsive and adaptable, seeking to deliver technical advice in a practical yet commercial way, with an ability to innovate and think creatively in order to deliver the best solutions for our clients’. Joanne enjoys contributing to the wider business communities in which she works and is a national director of TMA UK and the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association and more locally a board member of the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership. Joanne is also passionate about the importance of business inclusion and diversity and supports Foot Anstey’s work in this area.
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Foot Anstey
A key member of our Restructuring & Insolvency team, Lydia advises on all aspects of formal and informal insolvency procedures, including administration and liquidation sales, both buyer and seller side, with particular experience in retail and financial sectors. She regularly works with insolvency practitioners, providing strategic support throughout the insolvency process. Lydia also advises directors on supply chain issues and close down of companies through voluntary strike off or members’ voluntary liquidation processes. She also works on solvent sales, assisting with the turnaround of distressed businesses and restructures. Lydia has practical experience of the investment bank special administration regime. She has assisted with five of the small number of investment firms to enter into special administration following the introduction of this specialist procedure as a result of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Lydia enjoys collaboration and bringing people together across networks. She founded TMA UK NextGen Bristol, a networking organisation focused on running events to connect people at a junior level working in turnaround.
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Foot Anstey
Tim is a member of our restructuring and insolvency team and provides advisory support to a broad range of businesses, directors, financial institutions and insolvency practitioners. Increasingly Tim advises distressed corporates and their directors in relation to their statutory duties, supporting them as they make ongoing decisions in respect of trading, investments and asset disposals. As a result of a secondment with a High Street Clearing Bank, Tim has significant experience in providing advice to financial institutions in respect of their stressed and distressed portfolios, covering new lending, security structures and enforcement. He also works with lenders and investors operating in the distressed debt sector. Another highlight has been advising five of the small number of investment firms to enter into special administration following the introduction of the specialist procedure as a result of the collapse of Lehman Brothers – Tim is one of a limited number of lawyers with significant experience in this area. Tim particularly enjoys the technical detail of restructuring and insolvency work, and has created a knowledge sharing culture around this within the firm enabling colleagues to learn from one another and be better prepared to assist clients.
Burges Salmon LLP
Emily is a finance lawyer with a particular focus on complex corporate restructuring and insolvency matters in the private and public sectors. She acts for key stakeholders including investors, companies, management teams, insolvency practitioners, regulators and pension trustees on both domestic and cross border matters. Recent publishable highlights include advising on FTI Consulting’s administration and sale of Cote Restaurants; Bakers + Baristas’ company voluntary arrangement; and Causeway Capital’s acquisition of Patisserie Valerie.
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Osborne Clarke LLP
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Burges Salmon LLP
Andrew heads the Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency team at Burges Salmon. He has extensive experience in advising on distressed situations including corporate restructurings, turnaround and formal insolvency in the private and public sector. He has advised numerous investors, companies, management teams, insolvency practitioners and pensions trustees in relation to debt and equity restructurings, contingency planning and formal insolvency. His work covers both domestic and cross border matters. Recent highlights include advising on a number of energy, retail and leisure situations including Wasps Holdings Limited, Birmingham Bio Power, Cote Restaurants, Bakers + Baristas and Patisserie Valerie.
Burges Salmon LLP
Specialist in real estate aspects of investment, development and rail infrastructure funding projects. Acts for Transports for Wales and Abellio group companies on property related matters involving rail infrastructure projects. Acts for senior debt lenders on development finance and investment finance for commercial real estate. Also acts for lenders, fixed charge receivers and administrators on distressed situations as head of the Burges Salmon Real Estate Insolvency Team. Many years’ experience both in structuring and securing loan facilities, and also acting on fixed charge receiverships and administrations involving the sale of significant commercial property assets, such as investment properties, partially completed development sites and nursing homes.
Burges Salmon LLP
Emily is a finance lawyer with a particular focus on complex corporate restructuring and insolvency matters in the private and public sectors. She acts for key stakeholders including investors, companies, management teams, insolvency practitioners, regulators and pension trustees on both domestic and cross border matters. Recent publishable highlights include advising on FTI Consulting’s administration and sale of Cote Restaurants; Bakers + Baristas’ company voluntary arrangement; and Causeway Capital’s acquisition of Patisserie Valerie.
DAC Beachcroft LLP