England - South East • Finance
Blake Morgan LLP
Blake Morgan LLP houses a ‘really excellent’ team of ‘top-quality lawyers’, which advises a diverse range of stakeholders, consisting of landlords, distressed company directors and banks. Katie James leads the team from Reading, utilising her ‘first-rate knowledge and experience’, and is particularly adept in advising on the administration of distressed care homes. In Southampton, Dan Geddes often acts for insolvency practitioners in claims against debtors and company directors. Andrew Murphy has now moved to Manolete Partners Plc.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Blake Morgan have a lot of top quality lawyers with great emphasis on commercially sensible outcomes. They are calm, experienced and know the law. Very reassuring.’
‘All their insolvency lawyers are really excellent.’
‘They are a specialist team with an excellent working knowledge of insolvency law. They do meticulous preparation for any hearing.’
‘The diversity, breadth of knowledge, attention to detail, overall experience and dedication to outstanding client care and outcomes makes the insolvency offering at Blake Morgan's Reading office second to none.
- 'Their approach and mindset are a breath of fresh air when dealing with contentious insolvency matters; making them without doubt our go-to firm. This team truly adopts the attitude that we're all in it together, and follow through on that time and time again.’
‘Katie Warner is an outstanding lawyer and has both insight and experience beyond her years. Sharp minded, robust and 100% focused on the task in hand; she makes an impressive mark on every case she touches.'
‘Excellent and responsive team with very good restructuring, recovery, insolvency experience and knowledge. Ongoing development within the team is routine and impressive.’
‘Katie James has first-rate knowledge and experience. Good commerciality to advice given. She is flexible and responsive. Katie provides serious advice, and her considerable experience is evident in the analysis of issues and the solutions that she offers.’
Key clients
- Metro Bank Plc
- Quantuma Advisory Limited
- Begbies Traynor
- Fraser Real Estate
- Opus Restructuring & Insolvency
- Rollings Butt LLP
- Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group
- Fraser Real Estate
- Azets
- Global Corporate Limited
Work highlights
- Advised Rollings Butt LLP, as the liquidators of STA Travel Limited, STA Travel International Limited and STA Travel Management Limited, in relation to customer refunds, the appropriate treatment of guarantee claims made by airlines, disclaimer of leasehold interests, employee issues, a sale of a subsidiary company, a sale of social media accounts and recovery of book debts.
- Advising on the appointment of administrators of Snug Shack Limited and concluding a pre-packaged sale of the company's business and certain assets to a national furniture retailer.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Katie James