Dan Butler has noteworthy experience in acting in contentious corporate and individual insolvency matters, and leads the Trowers & Hamlins LLP team from Manchester. Simon Banks also focuses on contentious matters, and Adam Berman is an experienced litigator. Seb Lang left the team in December 2023.
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Key clients
- FRP Advisory
- Begbies Traynor
- Quantuma Advisory
- RSM Restructuring
- First Abu Dhabi Bank Plc
- Kroll
- Turpin Barker Armstrong
- Mazars
- Xeinadin Corporate Recovery
- Asertis
- Opus Restructuring LLP
- Leornard Curtis Limited
- Edge Recovery
- Manolete plc
Work highlights
- Acted for First Abu Dhabi Bank in relation to the appointment of administrators over a flagship development next to Buckingham Palace in relation to contentious and non-contentious issues arising worth between £350m and £500m.
- Acted for Xeinadin Corporate Recovery as liquidators and administrators of a number of property development companies, pursuing asset tracing claims valued at approximately £10m.
- Acting for a Hong Kong company and various other defendants in a £10m+ claim relating to the intra-group transfer of financial services software and IP.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Dan Butler