One of the most influential firms in the Scottish insolvency and restructuring market, and recently bolstered by the addition of Douglas Blyth from Dentons, Addleshaw Goddard regularly handles the most significant mandates across the gamut of areas spanning financial restructurings and formal insolvency, to distressed real estate and hostile insolvency court work. The team services a broad range of businesses from SMEs to large multinational organisations, with practice head Jamie McIntosh specialising in all aspects of insolvency, turnaround and corporate restructuring. The dual-qualified Tim Cooper heads up the contentious offering, while Addi Spiers leads the distressed real estate team and focuses on property finance projects, debt portfolio sales and acquisitions and management. Legal director Emma Widdowson acts for some of the UK’s top clearing banks and US funds, and managing associate Courtney Clelland is highly regarded.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

‘Very responsive, commercial and adept on very technical issues; very good experience in areas relevant to R&I, and distress.’
‘Addi Spiers is very user-friendly, highly positive and has a can do attitude. She is highly responsive, experienced/astute, commercial and pragmatic - a very safe pair of hands.’
‘Jamie McIntosh is very experienced erudite, and user-friendly.’
‘One of the largest R&I teams in Scotland and involved in many of the more complex cases. They are able to draw on the full range of services to assist clients.’
‘On the transactional side, Jamie McIntosh is a good operator and very client focussed.’
‘Addleshaw Goddard is, quite simply, the largest and strongest restructuring team in a very strong Scottish legal market. Very client-focused and always deliver to the highest standard.’
‘Jamie McIntosh is someone you would always want on your side: very astute, very commercial, very good.’
‘The AG team have real strength in depth. They have one of the largest restructuring teams in the Scottish legal community and can also draw upon sector and specialists from other legal disciplines (property, employment, commercial, corporate etc).’

Key clients

Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank Of Scotland / NatWest
Santander Bank
Clydesdale Bank PLC/ Virgin Money
HSBC
Barclays Bank plc
Interpath Limited
Cynergy Bank
Cable Capital Partners Limited
Scottish Enterprise

Work highlights

Acting for Interpath Limited as administrators of the Arjowiggins Group.
Acting for Breal Zeta as funder on the restructuing of Highland Spring Group.

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

Tim Cooper

Hall of fameAddleshaw Goddard

Tim specialises in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring and recovery across a wide range of industry sectors. His experience includes multi-disciplinary corporate restructuring, management and bank-led distressed turnaround, restructuring and distressed acquisitions. Tim has particular experience in the asset-based lending sector, distressed refinance and pension scheme-related distressed restructurings. Career highlights include: in 2013, Tim led a multi-discipline, firm-wide team advising on the high-profile liquidation of The Scottish Coal Company; in 2014, Tim advised the administrators of Ferguson Shipbuilders. More recently Tim has acted for the administrators on the trading administration of Penman Engineering Ltd.

Jamie McIntosh

Hall of fameAddleshaw Goddard

Partner

Addi Spiers

Hall of fameAddleshaw Goddard

Leading individuals

Douglas Blyth

Addleshaw Goddard