Nigel Boobier
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Restructuring/Insolvency
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About
Provided by Nigel Boobier
Practice Areas
Banking and finance
Restructuring and insolvency
Dispute resolution
Corporate
Business advisory
Career
Nigel is a Partner in Osborne Clarke’s restructuring and insolvency group, with over 20 years’ experience advising clients on all types of restructuring situations.
Nigel works with corporates, directors (particularly on directors’ duties), creditors, lenders, office holders, public authorities and stakeholders in pension situations (corporates, trustees and the Pension Protection Fund). He has an in-depth understanding of the complexities of these matters and is recognised as a “great all-rounder” capable of delivering pragmatic advice for his clients and a “market leader with a very strong practice”.
Nigel has also been involved in many restructurings for a variety of clients across a range of business sectors with an emphasis in recent times on retail, energy and utilities (particularly waste and renewables), leisure and hotels, care homes and real estate (including funds and infrastructure projects).
Recent assignments include acting for the administrators of Agent Provocateur, the purchasers of the Opal Group student accommodation portfolio, the purchasers of Hotelcare Limited through a pre-packed administration, the UK liquidators of Alitalia Airlines and in respect of many real estate restructurings.
Chambers Review
UK
Nigel Boobier is head of the restructuring and insolvency department in Bristol and is a leading name in the South West for restructuring and insolvency work. He routinely acts for insolvency practitioners, lenders and distressed businesses on restructuring, the appointment of receivers, asset sales and myriad issues concerned with premises.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nigel is very calm and diffuses inflammatory situations. He gives well considered advice on complex matters, is always accessible and a pleasure to work with."
"He is a very experienced and reassuring safe pair of hands."
"Nigel is fantastic."
"Nigel is very calm and diffuses inflammatory situations. He gives well considered advice on complex matters, is always accessible and a pleasure to work with."
"He is a very experienced and reassuring safe pair of hands."
"Nigel is fantastic."