The ‘effective and agile’ team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys regularly operates in five sectors: namely, construction, finance, healthcare, education and defence. Recently, the firm has been involved in a number of restructuring matters. Practice head Sam Payne handles advisory and transactional work, often for insolvency practitioners and lenders. In addition, Alan Meiklejohn has recently advised lenders and secured creditors together on a variety of recovery and insolvency issues, with Hayley Phelps strengthening the team with her experience in advisory and transactional work. Stuart Taylor joined the practice in July 2022 from Pinsent Masons LLP .

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Testimonials

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‘I find the team's approach to be fast, effective and agile.'
'They are ready to move at short notice to deliver a great outcome.’
‘Alan Meiklejohn understands both the strategic and detailed objectives of the issues and works hard to find a solutions-based outcome.'
'Sam Payne is commercially astute and able to leverage those positions.’
‘The team headed by Sam Payne is well rounded, pragmatic and cost effective, covering all types of corporate insolvency assignments.’
‘Sam Payne is a very commercial pragmatic restructuring solicitor who had experience in dealing with a very wide range of challenging assignments.'

Key clients

Quantuma Advisory Limited
Begbies Traynor
McAlister & Co
PBC Insolvency
Interpath
Mazars
RSM Restructuring Advisory LLP
FRP Advisory
Alvarez & Marsal
Thincats
Triple Point
BDO
Leonard Curtis
Smith Cooper
Butcher woods

Work highlights

Acted for Quantuma Advisory Limited as the proposed and then joint administrators of CPD Realisations Limited (formally Sleep Design Limited) and the subsequent pre-pack sale of the business and assets to a third party following the affects to the company caused by COVID and then other economic headwinds.
Acted for Tricorn Group PLC, a locally based engineering business whose UK trading division had previously entered administration. Working alongside Alvarez & Marsal in relation to the sale of the business and assets of the PLC in particular a US Subsidiary and the proposed realisation of its interest in a joint venture company based in China.
Acted for Mazars as proposed and then actual administrators of Almor Limited being a company involved in the manufacture, refurbishing and repair of furnaces. The company had experienced financial headwinds together with a reduced order book causing it to go into administration. Acted on the appointment and the sale of the company’s assets and continue to deal with a number of property issues across all 3 sites that the company had previously traded from.