Helen Bates

Corporate Recovery, Insolvency and Restructuring

Helen is a Director of Freeths and heads up the Corporate Recovery, Insolvency and Restructuring team in the Leeds office.

Helen is a well-known and highly regarded lawyer with over 17 years’ experience.

Helen acts for many national and regional Insolvency Practitioners, lenders, creditors, debtors, companies, directors, business owners, guarantors and individuals, dealing with all aspects of both corporate and personal insolvency, including director disqualification proceedings.

Helen undertakes both contentious and non-contentious work, regularly bringing or defending claims, advising businesses and individuals in financial distress and regularly advising the various parties to transactional matters, whether this be the seller, buyer, guarantors, funders or other parties to a transaction.

Helen has conducted numerous high-profile and complex matters, including various multi-million pound transactions and court cases.

Helen is known for her technical skills and her commercial and practical approach. She is often referred to as being robust, pragmatic and a “safe pair of hands” with an ability to always find a solution.

1997 – 2000: LLB (Hons) 2:1; 2000 – 2001: College of Law, York: LPC (Distinction)