Hannah Blom-Cooper > Greenberg Traurig, LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

‘Small but perfectly formed’, Greenberg Traurig, LLP advises debtors, creditors and investors across a wide array of work, from special situations and amend and extend transactions through to administration processes. Although the team – which also regularly works alongside international offices throughout its European and US network on cross-border deals – is sector agnostic, it is particularly effective in the real estate field, where it is able to leverage the firm’s overarching subject matter knowledge and strong client base that includes real estate funds. Team head John Houghton is ‘experienced and knowledgeable’ across a range of formal processes and more transactional work, and has been particularly active in relation to the use of the UK restructuring plan, including in restructurings involving foreign debtors. Drawing upon his former transactional finance grounding, Rupert Cheetham excels in consensual workouts and schemes, while Hannah Blom-Cooper ‘has a wealth of experience in contentious insolvencies‘.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP‘s civil fraud practice has ‘some of the biggest names in civil fraud and the expertise to take on the largest cases’. The team routinely represents corporations and individuals from the retail, finance, investment, energy and real estate sectors in cross-border civil fraud matters. It is particularly experienced in multi-jurisdictional cases, and search and seizure orders; clients further benefit from the London group’s leveraging of litigation teams from the firm’s international network of 47 offices. The London civil fraud and business disputes practice is co-chaired by Kathryn Garbett, who is ‘one of the most experienced civil fraud litigators around’, and Claire Broadbelt, who acts for both claimants and defendants in high-value civil fraud cases before the English High Court. The second line of experienced practitioners includes Annabel Thomas, whose caseload frequently involves multiple jurisdictions and interim relief applications; longstanding civil fraud expert Martin Shobbrook, who has considerable experience in multi-jurisdictional asset tracing; Hannah Blom-Cooper, who heads the London contentious insolvency practice; and Elizabeth Fox, who handles matters involving fraud and misconduct allegations. Other names to note are Mehmet Karagoz, Katharine Bond, Bethany Histed and Stephanie Silverston. ‘First-rate litigator’ Masoud Zabeti was promoted to shareholder in early 2024.