The ‘fantastic’ team at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner provides ’cost-effective, commercial and responsive advice’ to creditors, investors and debtors across a myriad of restructuring and insolvency mandates, often working alongside complementary practice area experts, including in the finance and corporate groups, to very good effect. Team head Richard Obank has very good connections with IPs and excels in guiding them through often complex multi-stakeholder restructurings. Obank is also adept at advising fund clients investing in distressed situations, as is Marc Trottier, who ‘helps deliver solutions to complex and challenging situations’. Colin Ashford is also a key member of the team, particularly for contentious insolvency matters.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The fantastic team provides cost-effective, commercial and responsive advice.'
- 'BCLP has an excellent and diverse R&I practice and leverages its wider practice offerings (such as finance, corporate, tax and employment) well to provide joined-up high-quality advice.'
- 'Marc Trottier is a first-rate lawyer. He is extremely commercial, responsive and helps deliver solutions to complex and challenging situations.'
Key clients
- Begbies Traynor Group
- Grant Thornton
- Interpath Advisory
- Rights and Media Funding Limited
- Bracket Ventures Fund LP
- Buchler Phillips
- Teneo
- Alvarez & Marsal
- BDO
- Ares Management Limited
Work highlights
- Representing the joint administrators and fixed-charge receivers of Worcester Warriors, one of the largest English Premier Rugby teams.
- Advised The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity in relation to the potential insolvency of one of its critical suppliers, Specialist Aviation Services Ltd.
- Advised Rights and Media Funding, a leading UK-based financial services company and long-term lender to Everton Football Club (EFC), in relation to the widely publicised acquisition of a majority stake in EFC by 777 Partners, the leading Miami-based investment fund.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Richard Obank