England - Yorkshire And The Humber • Finance
Gateley Legal‘s business restructuring team is based in Leeds and led by Matthew Brown. The team has specialist expertise regarding distressed debt and equity work, alongside a strong insolvency litigation practice. ’Fantastic’ Matt Leech manages the team’s principal bank relationships, and was promoted to partner in May 2022. Associate Kulsam Mulla has a particular focus on dishonesty and fraud work, including multi-jurisdictional carousel fraud.
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‘We've found the Gateley Leeds office restructuring practice excellent to deal with and Matt Leech in particular proving very effective in providing clear commercial advice, often in some pretty time-critical situations.’
‘Matt Leech is a safe pair of hands when advising appointment takers in recovery situations. Always on hand with the provision of sound commercial advice.’
‘Gateley Legal has an extensive team with the necessary skills. The team are very thorough and provide strong legal advice. The team took the time to understand the business and the challenges faced by the business during the transaction.’
‘Matt Leech is very knowledgeable and strong on the detail while appreciating the bigger picture. The support and advice from Matt extended beyond legal - his commercial acumen and strategic perspectives were invaluable. Matt is personable and pleasant to work with. Matt is very accessible and queries are usually dealt with on the same or next day. We would highly recommend Matt Leech and look forward to working with him again in the future.’
‘Gateley Legal is a trusted adviser willing to work effectively and taking a team approach to the assignments. The firm is highly professional and approachable and commands respect, and has operated at a consistently high level over a number of years.’
‘Gateley Legal has strength in depth, its lawyers are very supportive, technically excellent and solution oriented. Relationships are uniformly strong.’
‘The team offer a great mix of technical know-how with strong commerciality and a commitment to great service.’
‘Matt Leech is fantastic to work with. Knowledgeable, amiable and extremely pragmatic. Liz Russell is an excellent associate.'
Leading individuals
Matthew is an experienced restructuring advisor to large and small companies. He also advises restructuring professionals such as accountants, financial institutions, directors, landlords and pensions trustees. Matthew has particular expertise in creating and implementing solutions to restructure financially or operationally challenged companies.
Next Generation Partners
Matt specialises in all aspects of recovery, restructuring and insolvency work, with an emphasis on non-contentious corporate and property advice. He advises insolvency practitioners, fixed charge receivers, banks and other lenders, directors and shareholders. Matt has undertaken secondments with Royal Bank of Scotland’s AIM team, Yorkshire Bank’s SBS team and National Australia Bank’s CRE team and has a good working knowledge of lenders’ internal processes, procedures and requirements.
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Matthew Brown