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The 'very personable' team at Macfarlanes LLP provides advice to a myriad stakeholders including corporates, investors and IPs which is 'tailored to real circumstances and backed by technical detail'. Consequently, the team, which is led by Jat Bains ('a fountain of knowledge across a range of restructuring matters') regularly secures favourable results in domestic and cross-border matters, whether it be in relation to formal insolvency mandates, restructurings or fund-related transactional work. Himself a qualified IP,  Paul Keddie has 'very impressive technical knowledge', which he is able to draw upon to 'suggest practical solutions to complex legal problems' across a range of corporate restructuring and recovery matters.

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Testimonials

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  • 'Very personable, able to provide advice tailored to real circumstances and backed by the technical detail.'
  • 'Jat Bains has a wealth of experience and is a fountain of knowledge across a range of restructuring matters.'
  • 'Paul Keddie has very impressive technical knowledge and is able to use that to suggest practical solutions to complex legal problems.'
  • 'Amy Walker is one to watch.'
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Key clients

  • Benji Dymant and Rob Harding of Teneo Financial Advisory Limited
  • Constructions Industrielles de la Méditerranée SA and its subsidiaries
  • Creative Artists Agency, LLC (CAA),
  • Sparta Capital Management Limited
  • Trevor Binyon and Steve Parker of Opus Restructuring LLP as administrators of Unicom Insurance Services Limited, Tradewise Group of Companies Limited and liquidators of Tradewise Insurance Services Limited
  • Rob Croxen and Jonathan Marston of Alvarez & Marsal as administration of Aurora Limited, Aurora Distribution Limited and Aurorira Projects (UK) Limited

Lawyers

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Jat Bains

Jat Bains

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Jat is head of the restructuring and insolvency group. He specialises in a range of debt finance transactions, acting for credit and special situations funds, corporate clients, sponsors, bondholders and senior and mezzanine lenders in relation to, amongst other things, workouts and restructurings, and real estate finance. He has worked on several domestic and international private and public deals. His international finance experience also includes a secondment to Italy, where he assisted a local firm with the English law aspects of a securitisation and refinancing relating to a major Italian airport company. Jat’s restructuring experience includes a secondment to the restructuring group legal team at a global financial institution, where he was involved in multibillion dollar restructurings. Jat is a member of the Institute for Turnaround and is a contributing editor of the ICLG Restructuring and Insolvency series. Jat is a partner champion of our REACH (race, ethnicity and cultural heritage) staff network, a forum for networking and peer support between ethnic minority staff and allies. Jat is ranked in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame, which highlights individuals who are at the pinnacle of the profession and considered by clients to provide continued excellence.

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Paul Keddie

Paul Keddie

Macfarlanes LLP

Paul advises on a broad range of corporate restructuring and recovery issues. His clients include companies in financial difficulties, their directors and shareholders, insolvency practitioners appointed over such companies, lenders to and other major creditors of troubled entities, investors interested in a “loan-to-own” strategy and buyers of businesses where there is an insolvency aspect. Paul’s experience also includes a secondment at Warwick Capital Partners LLP. Paul is a qualified insolvency practitioner, having passed the Joint Insolvency Examination Board examinations in 2013. Paul is the co-author of the Insolvency and Restructuring Manual, 3rd Edition, published by Bloomsbury Professional Ltd, the "England" chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Recovery & Insolvency 2020 and the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, also published by Bloomsbury Professional Ltd.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Jat Bains

Other key lawyers

Paul Keddie, Amy Walker, Tim Bromley-White