The 'dynamic and responsive' team at Taylor Wessing LLP provides 'highly effective' advice to creditors, investors, debtors and office holders across a variety of contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters. Team head Nick Moser excels in handling contentious matters, including those involving allegations of fraud, some of which arise in an asset-based lending context. Amy Patterson is 'highly knowledgeable' at handling real-estate-related cross-border restructuring and insolvency mandates, while Stephen O’Grady leverages the firm's broader venture capital credentials to good effect on tech-related mandates, including in the crypto space.
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Testimonials
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- 'A dynamic and responsive team with a "down to earth" approach which is very welcome.'
- 'It is a diverse, highly effective and hardworking team.'
- 'Amy Patterson is a standout partner and very much a go-to in the insolvency area, particularly in complex cross-border matters.'
- 'Amy Patterson is highly knowledgeable, considered, efficient but also warm and easy to work with.'
Key clients
- Phoenix S.G Ltd
- White Oak
- CS Global Energy
- Trinity Investments DAC
- Deluxe Media
- Lady Cristina Green
- Octavius Infrastructure Limited
- WN VTech Holdings Limited
- Cain International
Work highlights
- Advising Phoenix on all aspects of a complex, accelerated transaction to rescue the assets and business of the 170-year-old Stanley Gibbons Group, including saving jobs and replicating the fractionalised ownership structure in respect of the 1c Magenta, the most valuable stamp in the world.
- A cross-practice team (restructuring and regulatory) obtained what is only the fifth order for special administration under The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021 enabling special administrators to be appointed to effect an efficient return of customer safeguarded funds.
- Acting for CS Global Energy as buyer in the multi-jurisdictional pre-pack sale of the business of Lake Parime, a bitcoin miner with operations in the US, Canada and New Zealand.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Nick Moser