The national restructuring and insolvency group at Mills & Reeve LLP is led from London by Neil Smyth and from Cambridge by principal associate Lino Di Lorenzo, but it calls upon key resources in the firm's Norwich office, where Catherine Noble handles complex claims related to the recovery of assets for estates, and Lynne Lawn focuses on debt and asset recovery claims for the Official Receiver. The firm provides a full service offering to insolvency practitioners, directors, creditors and other key stakeholders of financially distressed companies and individuals. It is a member of the Insolvency Services Panel and acts on disqualification, investigations, public interest winding up mandates and asset recovery actions for Official Receivers nationally.
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Key clients
- McTear Williams & Wood
- Manolete Partners
- Moore Stephens/BDO
- Regulator for Social Housing
- American International Group UK Limited.
- Opus
- FRP Advisory
- Homes and Communities Agency
- Insolvency Service and Official Receivers
- Department for Education
Work highlights
- Successfully defending Gerard Barnes, a former consultant to the board of a cosmetic surgery company in multi-party claim for damages exceeding £35,000,000 for breach of duty, negligence and dishonest assistance in Henderson & Jones v Ross (and others) following a 4 week trial and securing an order that all his costs be paid on the indemnity basis.
- Advising the joint administrators of the Sustainable Bathroom Company Limited in connection with the challenge made to the validity of their appointment in which an improper motive on the part of the lender was alleged.
- Acting for Charles Taylor, a professional footballer, on the annulment of a bankruptcy order.
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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Lino Di Lorenzo, Neil Smyth