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DLA Piper

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With a strong presence in London and the key regional centres, the ‘hard working and technically strong’ team at DLA Piper is particularly effective at providing ’responsive and pragmatic’ advice to creditor, debtor and investor stakeholders engaged in high-profile UK-based restructuring and insolvency matters. In this context, the team, which is led by Tim Dawson, ‘is able to provide support on all aspects of complex insolvency’, as well as being able to lean into other core complementary practice areas including tax, litigation and finance. Under the guidance of David Ampaw and David Manson, the team has also continued to develop its special situations offering and is gaining traction among funds clients deploying a range of bespoke capital solutions. Chris Parker has ’strong technical knowledge’ in relation to cross-border contentious restructuring, and regularly works alongside practitioners from throughout the firm’s wide global footprint.

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Testimonials

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  • 'The team is friendly, hard working and technically strong.'
  • 'They are pragmatic and appropriately assertive in driving cases forward.'

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Key clients

  • Alvarez & Marsal
  • Kyma Capital

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Work highlights

  • Longstanding legal advisors to VEON on their loan facilities, derivatives and other corporate treasury matters.
  • Advised Flybe in relation to its options analysis, stakeholder engagement, directors’ fiduciary and statutory duties, contingency planning and latterly the appointment of David Pike and Mike Pink of Interpath Advisory as administrators to the company.

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