Tom Paton > Irwin Mitchell > Sheffield, England > Lawyer Profile
Irwin Mitchell Offices
RIVERSIDE EAST
2 MILLSANDS
SHEFFIELD
S3 8DT
England
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Tom Paton
Work Department
Restructuring and Insolvency
Position
Partner
Career
Tom specialises in all areas of corporate recovery and insolvency. He advises insolvency practitioners, banks, companies, individuals and creditors on a variety of insolvency-related matters, at a local, national and cross border level.
He has particular experience in contentious insolvency, acting for insolvency practitioners in claims against third parties brought under the Insolvency Act 1986.
Tom regularly provides internal training to various teams at the firm and also presents seminars on behalf of R3 in the Yorkshire area.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Fielding a large team spread across its Leeds and Sheffield offices, Irwin Mitchell‘s restructuring and insolvency practice handles the full breadth of contentious and non-contentious work for a client base of banks, lenders, insolvency practitioners and restructuring professionals. Doug Robertson and Tom Paton jointly lead the team from Leeds and Sheffield respectively; Robertson specialises in property insolvency, while Paton also leads the firm’s national creditors services team.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family: elsewhere in Yorkshire
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Public sector > Education
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Sheffield and South Yorkshire
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Employment > Pensions