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Tim Cooper

Tim Cooper

Work Department

Restructuring and insolvency.

Position

Tim specialises in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring and recovery across a wide range of industry sectors. His experience includes multi-disciplinary corporate restructuring, management and bank-led distressed turnaround, restructuring and distressed acquisitions. Tim has particular experience in the asset-based lending sector, distressed refinance and pension scheme-related distressed restructurings. Career highlights include: in 2013, Tim led a multi-discipline, firm-wide team advising on the high-profile liquidation of The Scottish Coal Company; in 2014, Tim advised the administrators of Ferguson Shipbuilders. More recently Tim has acted for the administrators on the trading administration of Penman Engineering Ltd.

Career

Trained John A B Ridley; qualified 1997, DLA 1997-2004, Squire Sanders Hammonds (now Squire Patton Boggs); Solicitor, Partner HBJ Gateley 2012 to May 2017, Partner Addleshaw Goddard June 2017 - date.

Languages

Conversational German and French.

Memberships

Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3); R3 council regional representative for Scotland; chair R3 in Scotland Committee; member of the R3/ICAS Scottish Technical Committee; Law Society of England and Wales; registered in Scotland as a foreign expert.

Education

Thomas Rotherham College; Staffordshire University (1992 LLB Hons); Edinburgh University (1993 LLM); Leeds Metropolitan University (1995 DipLP).

Mentions

Finance • Scotland

Insolvency and corporate recovery

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