Drawing upon well-established connections with clearing banks and IPs, as well as continuing to develop its presence among the fund community, Pinsent Masons LLP has excellent traction in the mid-market across a range of restructuring and insolvency work. Team head Steven Cottee is well-versed across a range of insolvency procedures, including the relatively newly enacted restructuring plan, which he has promoted as a viable and useful option for mid-market debtors to utilise. Cottee also excels at work in regulated sectors and maintains his market-leading reputation for handling law firm insolvencies. Fusing his ‘rich experience with a blend of creativity, commerciality, credibility and pragmatism’, Charles Maunder is popular among boards of directors and corporates for distressed situations and complex restructurings, while Andrew Robertson advises both creditors and debtors on insolvency and restructuring proceedings.
Testimonials
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- 'Charles Maunder fuses his rich experience with a blend of creativity, commerciality, credibility and pragmatism.'
Key clients
- FRP Advisory Limited
- Modella Capital
Work highlights
- Acting for FRP as joint administrator of Safe Hands Plans Ltd (a pre-paid funeral provider to approximately 46,000 customers), which failed to obtain FCA authorisation and entered into administration, demonstrating the firm's ability to advise on complex and cross-border matters in a regulated sector and on an administration that has attracted significant attention in the press and among MPs.
- Advised the directors of the Toucan Energy solar farm portfolio in relation to the restructure and sale of the majority of the Toucan Group (the largest operational solar portfolio sold in the UK with a value of c.£700m) to private markets funds managed by Schroders Greencoat.