Restructuring/Insolvency
UK Guide 2025 : Yorkshire
Band 3
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Provided by Irwin Mitchell
The Leeds team are best known for acting for banks, asset-based lenders, other lenders, and restructuring professionals. We also have extensive experience in corporate advisory work advising boards of directors from contingency planning in the early stages of distress through to insolvency.
We act for a number of funders and lenders dealing with LPA/FCR work, mortgagee sales and general recoveries. We’re experienced at all areas of recoveries advisory from initial strategy discussions, advising on events of default, demand and reservation of rights letters to dealing with all aspects of enforcement and assisting in redemptions.
We've worked closely with a high street bank to produce an enhanced AML due diligence protocol to apply to buyers from the Bank or receivers to minimise this risk. In this we are industry leading.
The Sheffield team are known as the leading restructuring & insolvency team in Sheffield, being the largest team in Sheffield by a significant margin.
We act for all Insolvency Practitioner firms in the Sheffield market on corporate restructuring and insolvency assignments and for national Insolvency Practitioner firms on corporate court work matters.
We additionally carry out a large national portfolio (150+ live cases) of contentious insolvency matters, including KPMG (now Interpath), RSM and Mazars. We’re viewed as the leading lawyers nationally by these clients in terms of our expertise and capacity to deal with high value / complex matters.
Chambers Review
Irwin Mitchell advises insolvency professionals on contentious corporate and personal asset recovery, and creditors, including banks, on debt recovery. The firm also works with directors and boards of directors on a full range of insolvency-related matters.
Work Highlights
- Irwin Mitchell assisted Begbies Traynor in advice as the administrators of a group of ten companies.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They add value in everything they do and they understand commerciality."
"They add value in everything they do and they understand commerciality."
Notable Practitioners
Tom Paton has a strong insolvency practice handling both contentious and non-contentious matters. He is particularly adept at handling restructuring matters.
"He is very experienced and an exceptional strategist in predicting a case's future and plotting out a strategy."
"Tom's really good, very accessible and very good with his advice."
"Tom has extensive knowledge of insolvency litigation."
Doug Robertson has strong expertise in restructuring and insolvency. He is called upon by clients such as lenders and banks to advise on restructuring, enforcement and liquidation matters.
"Doug is personable and has sound knowledge."
"John is a fine and great individual."
"He has a good profile amongst the lenders."