Shepherd and Wedderburn

Commercial, Finance and Insolvency Disputes

Gillian is a partner in our Dispute Resolution practice and advises on both contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters with a particular focus on insolvency litigation, banking and finance litigation and debt recovery. She acts for a number of banks, financial institutions and insolvency practitioners and advises on a range of litigation matters including breach of fiduciary duty claims against directors; challenges by insolvency practitioners to pre-insolvency transactions; security and guarantee enforcement for secured and unsecured creditors as well as a variety of banking litigation and tax appeals. Gillian is a licensed insolvency practitioner and is accredited as a specialist in insolvency law by the Law Society of Scotland. She has worked on a number of high-profile insolvency assignments including advising the administrators of Heritable Bank (the Scottish subsidiary of the Icelandic bank, Landsbanki) and advising on the administration of legal practices. She is the lead client partner for the Insolvency Service advising on public interest litigation and directors’ misconduct and disqualification proceedings.

Trained Shepherd and Wedderburn; qualified 1995; assistant solicitor 1995-99; associate solicitor 1999-2001; partner 2001 to date. Publications of note: co-author of ‘Game v Springfield: Comparing the Treatment of Rent as an Administration Expense in Scotland and England’ published in International Corporate Rescue (2014).

Law Society of Scotland; licensed insolvency practitioner; accredited by Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in insolvency law. Director LawWorks Scotland.

Hutchesons Grammar School, Glasgow; University of Edinburgh (1993 LLB Hons Dip LP).