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Provided by Sam Corbett
Practice Areas
Sam Corbett is a partner in A&L Goodbody's Restructuring & Insolvency group in Belfast. He specialises in all aspects of business recovery and insolvency related matters and has extensive experience acting for local and national banks, financial institutions, funds, creditors and insolvency practitioners. Sam has acted on a number of high profile corporate restructurings in Northern Ireland in recent years. Sam is also an adept litigator and specialises in advising financial institutions and banks on financial services and insolvency related litigation. Sam actively prosecutes and defends many litigation cases at the Commercial Court and Chancery Court in Northern Ireland.
Areas of Expertise:
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Professional Negligence
• Real Estate Litigation
Career
Experience Advising:
- Johnston Press Plc on the administration of the Group and Pre-Packaged Sale of its business and assets to bondholders
- EY as Administrators of McErlain's Bakery (Magherafelt) Limited (Genesis Crafty)
- KPMG as special liquidators of IBRC which is currently the largest, most complex and cross jurisdictional insolvency on the island of Ireland
- Quinn Group on all aspects of its corporate restructuring of debt in the region of circa €1.3 billion
- The Administrators of the Carvill Group, the Taggart Group of companies, Fultons Fine Furnishings and KPL Contracts Ltd
- Bank of Ireland, First Trust Bank, Ulster Bank, Danske Bank, Santander and Lloyds Plc, in relation to contentious litigation matters
- The Administrators of Valto Limited, Quito Developments Limited, Shanidar Limited, Ormeau Gasworks Limited and Acheson & Glover Limited
- Various distressed loan purchasers in respect of a wide variety of restructuring and enforcement matters arising from their purchase of loan portfolios
- The Administrators of the Wildrose Group of companies
- DETI on the first successful income payments order application in Northern Ireland
Professional Memberships
Sam is a Law Society accredited mediator in commercial and civil disputes. Sam also lectures and tutors at the IPLS on the Insolvency and Civil Litigation modules.
Education
Queen's University Belfast
LLB
Queen's University Belfast
IPLS
Law Society of Northern Ireland
Solicitor
Law Society of England & Wales
Solicitor
Chambers Review
UK
Sam Corbett is head of the restructuring and insolvency department at A&L Goodbody, and is active in representing clients in corporate insolvencies, receiverships, administrations and liquidations.
Sam Corbett is noted for his strength in contentious insolvency as well as high-value financial services-related litigation.
Sam Corbett is a partner in the firm's Belfast office. He is highly adept at representing financial institutions in negligence claims, as well as handling claims brought against solicitors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Sam is a fantastic lawyer; he's diligent and has encyclopaedic knowledge of insolvency matters."
"We have a solid relationship with Sam; we trust him and he's easy to get along with, professional while also being very good from a technical legal perspective."
"Sam is one of the brightest people I have worked with. He's very personable and good with clients. He's measured with a great legal mind and is very commercial."
"Sam was exceptional and outperformed my expectations by far."
"Sam is an excellent adviser and one of the most trusted in Belfast. He is incredibly technical and is able to think and advise commercially."
"Sam's experience of the technicalities of restructuring and insolvency, combined with his client's preferred approaches, leads to an exceptional level of service and sophistication."
"Sam utilises his connections across Northern Ireland and his commerciality to add value to projects. He makes time to engage and deliver to a high quality."
"Sam has been charming and easy to deal with."
"Sam has good judgement and insight on what is going on."
"He is very commercial in his thinking and is very efficient."
"Sam is a fantastic lawyer; he's diligent and has encyclopaedic knowledge of insolvency matters."
"We have a solid relationship with Sam; we trust him and he's easy to get along with, professional while also being very good from a technical legal perspective."
"Sam is one of the brightest people I have worked with. He's very personable and good with clients. He's measured with a great legal mind and is very commercial."
"Sam was exceptional and outperformed my expectations by far."
"Sam is an excellent adviser and one of the most trusted in Belfast. He is incredibly technical and is able to think and advise commercially."
"Sam's experience of the technicalities of restructuring and insolvency, combined with his client's preferred approaches, leads to an exceptional level of service and sophistication."
"Sam utilises his connections across Northern Ireland and his commerciality to add value to projects. He makes time to engage and deliver to a high quality."
"Sam has been charming and easy to deal with."
"Sam has good judgement and insight on what is going on."
"He is very commercial in his thinking and is very efficient."
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