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The Wilkes Partnership

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The Wilkes Partnership’s ‘skilled’ team covers contentious and non-contentious work for clients that include insolvency practitioners and directors. Practice head David Cleary has a broad practice acting for stakeholders such as directors, creditors and buyers, while Andrew Garland, a ’highly competent professional’, often handles issues arising from the pursuit and defence of significant antecedent transactions and misfeasance claims, alongside a recent focus on tax avoidance cases.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Andrew Garland is a highly competent professional, showed good judgment in the case we worked on together, and is demonstrably technically excellent in his area of specialism. A good tactician.’

  • ‘They are skilled negotiators, litigators, and advisors, and are passionate about achieving the best possible outcomes for clients.’

  • ‘Andrew Garland's dedication to his clients is truly remarkable, and he consistently goes above and beyond to provide exceptional legal services. His unwavering commitment to achieving the best possible results, coupled with his exceptional skills as a lawyer, make him a highly sought-after and respected member of the legal community.’

  • ‘I have worked both with and against Andrew Garland. He is a very good insolvency litigator.’

  • ‘Our experience of the Wilkes Partnership is that they have the resources and expertise to deal with complex and multifaceted assignments in a commercial and efficient manner.’

  • ‘Andrew Garland stood out due to his approachability and knowledge of often complex subject matters (tax law and insolvency) and was able to obtain the desired result in an efficient manner in an extremely tight timeframe.’

  • ‘This team has a very strong presence in the market for insolvency work in the Midlands and beyond. The practice is known for its specialism in insolvency matters.’

  • ‘The partner team at The Wilkes Partnership is particularly strong. David Cleary, Andrew Garland and John Cooper are exceptionally good partners who strive at every opportunity to meet client's needs as effectively as possible.’

Key clients

  • Irwin Insolvency
  • Begbies (Central) Traynor LLP
  • Rendle & Co
  • BLB Advisory Limited
  • K J Watkin & Co
  • Butcher Woods
  • Muras Baker Jones
  • Poppleton & Appleby (Birmingham)
  • Voscap
  • Manolete Partners PLC
  • RG Insolvency
  • Greenfield Recovery
  • Griffin & King
  • Leonard Curtis
  • Ballard Business Recovery
  • F A Simms
  • Opus Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Expedium Limited
  • Bhardwaj Limited
  • Insolvency and Recovery limited
  • Oliver Elliot Limited
  • FRP
  • NDH Financial (Manchester)
  • Path Business Recovery (Manchester)
  • NTF Financial Solutions (Wilmslow)
  • Graywoods (Sheffield)
  • Revive Business Recovery (Doncaster)
  • Begbies Traynor (York)
  • RSM UK Creditor Solutions Ltd (Leeds)

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

David Cleary

Other key lawyers

Andrw Garland, John Cooper