Lawyers

Helen Fyles

Helen Fyles

Mills & Reeve LLP, North West

Work Department

Regulatory, public and commercial disputes.

Position

Helen is based in the Manchester office of Mills & Reeve. She has specialised in both corporate and individual insolvency since qualification and is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association and R3. She has established a reputation locally as an authority in relation to complex investigations and recoveries, complex individual voluntary arrangements of professionals and high-net-worth individuals (including celebrities).

Career

Trainee solicitor Cole & Cole Solicitors, Oxford 1996-98; solicitor Morgan Cole Solicitors, Oxford 1998-2000; associatiate DWF LLP Solicitors, Manchester 2000-06; partner George Davies Solicitors LLP 2006-13; partner Mills & Reeve LLP 2013 to date.

Memberships

R3 (Association of Business Recovery Professionals); Insolvency Lawyers’ Association.

Education

St Bede’s High School, Ormskirk and St John Rigby VI Form College; Girton College, University of Cambridge (1993 MA (Hons) Law; 1994 LLM European Law); Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (1995 Legal Practice Course (Distinction – Prize Winner)).

Leisure

Travelling (recent trips include Istanbul, India, Thailand, Washington DC and New York), film (particularly foreign films), theatre, reading and swimming.