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Brett Israel

Brett Israel

Work Department

Corporate Restructuring, Contentious Insolvency, Banking and Finance

Position

Brett has extensive experience acting for a range of insolvency practitioners, banks and other stakeholders on distressed corporate situations. He has worked on some of the most high-profile UK corporate collapses in the past 25 years including BCCI, MCC (Robert Maxwell), Facia, Parmalat, Nortel, Jessops, Lehman and MF Global.  He also has a long-standing banking practice, rountinely advising banks and customers on varied debt finance assignments from the plain 'vanilla' through to more specialist fields including asset-based lending, trade finance and real estate finance.

Career

Joined Marriott Harrison, Partner since 2015.

Solicitor Lovells 1988-92. Solicitor Norton Rose 1992 -94. Solicitor Nabarro LLP 1994-96. Solicitor Bird & Bird 1996 -1999; partner Bird & Bird 1999 - 2012. Partner Lawrence Graham LLP 2012 - 2014; partner partner Lawrence Graham & Co LLP 2014 - 2015;.

Memberships

R3 (the Association of Business Recovery Professionals), the Insolvency Lawyers Association, INSOL Europe and the Turnaround Management Association

Education

University of Warwick (Law LLB)