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

Other key lawyers

Simon Banks, Adam Berman