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Provided by Gateley Legal
Gateley Legal provide advice on financial and organisational restructuring, as well as when restructuring a team that spans issues across the full spectrum whether that is due to:
- solvent or insolvent business sales and exits;
- debt trading; or
- directors’ duties and corporate governance.
The team includes specialists in restructuring, mainstream transactional and contentious insolvency work and a team dedicated to overseas insolvency litigation.
The team advise on the preservation of assets as well as possible turnaround solutions for businesses in distress, either inside or outside of a formal insolvency process. And we act for many of the leading funds, investors and financial institutions as well as working closely with their other preferred advisers and insolvency practitioners.
The teams lawyers play an active part in organisations such as the Institute for Turnaround, Turnaround Management Association, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) and the Insolvency Lawyer’s Association. And several of them take part in and chair various central and regional committees for those industry bodies.
Chambers Review
Gateley Legal houses a strong restructuring and insolvency team that works with clients on contentious and non-contentious matters, sometimes with international dimensions. The department handles many cases where significant fraudulent activity is at the heart of company failure. It advises high-profile clients, including banks, insolvency practitioners and investors. It handles insolvencies arising in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing and construction.
Work Highlights
- Gateley Legal represented Kroll Advisory in breach of duty and fraudulent trading claims brought against the directors of Tiuta.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Gateley Legal are professional, capable and very experienced."
"Gateley Legal are very strong at negotiation. They are very calm in a crisis and they're very strong on their negotiating positions."
"Gateley Legal can understand and untangle complex legal problems."
"Gateley Legal are well resourced. They have great expertise and they are commercial."
"Gateley Legal are professional, capable and very experienced."
"Gateley Legal are very strong at negotiation. They are very calm in a crisis and they're very strong on their negotiating positions."
"Gateley Legal can understand and untangle complex legal problems."
"Gateley Legal are well resourced. They have great expertise and they are commercial."
Notable Practitioners
Daniel French leads the transactional side of the restructuring team in Birmingham. He offers high-quality advice on non-contentious insolvency issues. He has experience advising administrators on pre-pack sales of businesses and assets, as well as restructuring exercises of all kinds.
"Daniel French is very easy to work with."
National restructuring team leader Mark Wilson is renowned in the market for his skill as a litigator, acting for insolvency practitioners and corporate clients. He also has extensive experience in investigations into the actions of company directors.
"Mark Wilson performed exceptionally on the work matters."
"Mark Wilson provided insightful analysis, sage advice and commercial acumen."
"Mark Wilson has a very good strategic overview of where cases are going. It is useful to have someone looking at different calculations of the strategy and the case."
Chris Radford is a Nottingham-based partner in the restructuring department. He advises stakeholders of all kinds on the full span of restructuring matters, such as asset sales, shareholder agreements and CVAs.
"Chris Radford knows his stuff and comes across well to the client."
Ranked Lawyers at
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