England - South East • Finance
Working out of Reading, the ‘very pragmatic and solution-driven’ team at Gateley Legal often advises banks, construction companies and distressed investors on portfolio sales and administrations. The ‘brilliantly well-rounded’ and ‘outstanding’ Nicola Kirk has a great deal of experience in acting in turnaround, restructuring, and dispute resolution matters; and Ken Titchen frequently assists insolvency practitioners and directors with both solvent and insolvent restructurings. Jenny Grange left the team to an in-house role in July 2022.
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‘Gateley are a very pragmatic and solutions driven firm, which is often critical when working under pressure to unlock issues and achieve successful outcomes. In relation to procedural and transactional matters they are excellent, but it is really when you need something extra that they shine.’
‘Nicola Kirk is an outstanding lawyer with a fantastic balance of technical knowledge and commercial acumen. What makes her and her team stand out is that she is focused on understanding the issues, but also gets the pressures of the restructuring world and considerations of an Insolvency Practitioner. She provides robust solutions and is exceptionally good at cutting through the noise. Nicola is brilliantly well-rounded, and overall Nicola is exceptional and is a very trusted and reliable adviser.’
‘Great people with technical competence combined with commercial awareness.’
‘Nicola Kirk is exceptional at client management and taking the overview of the case.'
Leading individuals
Nicola is a specialist restructuring partner who provides advice and assistance on contentious and non-contentious insolvency, restructuring, refinancing, turnaround, rescues, recoveries, security issues, protection of creditor interests and advisory matters (both corporate and personal). She also specialises in commercial disputes with particular emphasis on finance, corporate and shareholder disputes, asset and debt recovery.
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Nicola Kirk