England - North West • Finance
Clarke Willmott LLP
Clarke Willmott LLP‘s contentious-focused restructuring and insolvency practice is led by Chris Keane who is noted as a ’client-focused problem solver’. Its workload predominantly consists advising on the complex and often cross-jurisdictional issues involved in both personal and corporate insolvencies, a key example being its acting for liquidators of a company involved in large-scale CIS fraud in the value of £11.7m. Rachael Bentley has left for Leonard Curtis Legal.
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Testimonials
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‘Chris Keane is a client-focused problem solver.’
Key clients
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Begbies Traynor Group
- Begbies Traynor (Central) LLP
- Kroll Advisory Limited
- Moorfields Advisory Limited
- Path Business Recovery Limited
- Cowgills
- Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group
- Graywoods Limited
Work highlights
- Acting for liquidators, provisional liquidators and administrators of a group of entities involved in a connected, large-scale labour supply fraud; a matter led by HMRC.
- Acting for liquidators of an entity involved in large scale CIS fraud, led by HMRC, involving pursuing claims against the entity’s sole director and its former accountant for values over £11m.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Chris Keane