Katie James
Blake Morgan LLPBlake Morgan LLP acts for an array of insolvency practitioners, as well as a broader client base comprising banks, landlords, investors, and directors of distressed companies. Practice head Katie James is based in Reading and specialises in all forms of insolvency law, spanning corporate, personal, contentious, transactional and advisory work. Dan Geddes is another important contact for contentious matters in the space.
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‘Katie James. Very capable of absorbing a detailed history, evidence in multiple forms and various interlinked but distinct legal issues. Clear in advice and pragmatic. ’
‘Collaborative working atmosphere amongst the team with different fee earners agile at looking after colleague's files. ’
‘Katie James is pragmatic and very determined. ’
‘The team at Blake Morgan and very experienced and pro active and well respected in their local markets. They have a lot of really great partners who are approachable, competent and commercial. They have many high quality individuals across many departments which means they have huge depth of resources when acting for clients ’
‘Katy James is excellent. She is knowledgeable, engaging and clever. She is able to suggest sensible solutions to difficult problems and isn't afraid to give great advice.’
‘Hands on and engaged solicitors, who are not only experts in their respective field, but have an excellent broader knowledge such that they can quickly assist/guide through the unique situations that arise in an insolvency case.'
‘A personable and responsive team.’
‘Knowledgeable, flexible and Commercial in outlook and advice. Good value for money.’
Key clients
- Metro Bank plc
- Pythagoras Capital
- Watling Real Estate
- Durkan Cahill
- RSM UK Restructuring and Advisory LLP
- Quantuma Advisory Limited
- Global Corporate Limited
- Opus Restructuring LLP
- Antony Batty & Co
- Marshall Peters
Work highlights
- Advising James Money and Steven Butt of Rollings Butt as the Joint Liquidators of STA Travel Group in relation to claims for customer refunds (circa. £14m) and claims to excessive payments under guarantees (circa. £4m).
- Advising and acting for James Hawksworth and Matthew Wild of RSM UK Restructuring and Advisory LLP as the Administrators of a company that provided aviation services in relation to their appointment and the sale of the business and assets of the company for circa. £600k.
- Advising and acting for the Receivers of a Canadian company in relation to the recovery of loans made to Canadian individuals that are secured over property in England and Wales (circa £1m).
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Katie James