Fiona Stuart > Ashtons Legal > Norwich NR7, England > Lawyer Profile
Ashtons Legal Offices
TRAFALGAR HOUSE
MERIDIAN WAY
NORWICH
NR7 0TA
England
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Fiona Stuart
Work Department
Insolvency & Restructuring
Position
Partner
Career
Fiona leads the Insolvency & Restructuring team and is able to assist with both contentious and non-contentious insolvency and restructuring matters, acting on behalf of all categories of stakeholders, including Licensed Insolvency Practitioners, creditors, directors and employees, helping individuals and businesses alike to navigate complex situations under particularly difficult circumstances.
Fiona graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2008 and after attending law school and undertaking her training contract, qualified as a solicitor in 2011. Fiona specialises in insolvency and restructuring and is dual qualified as an insolvency practitioner (non-appointment taking) having passed the Joint Insolvency Examination Board (JIEB) exams in 2017.
Fiona is the Chairperson of YMCA Norfolk – the first female to take the role in 166 years! She is also a committee member for the Eastern Region of R3, the Association for Business Recovery Professionals.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
(Leading individuals)The practice at Ashtons Legal‘s insolvency offering is ‘close-knit and collaborative in style, and able to flex to client demands’. Practice head Fiona Stuart in Norwich ‘has a wealth of knowledge and is as a joy to work with’; notably, she recently worked with associate Alice Trainor to advise Ensors on a complex £1.5m bankruptcy. Senior associate Ina Beurich joined in September 2022 from Leathes Prior, bringing her in-depth knowledge of complex, contentious insolvency-related matters. Litigator Michael Frape
in Cambridge is also a key partner for contentious matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals East Anglia > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insolvency and corporate recovery East Anglia > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Transport and shipping
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in East Anglia