Restructuring and Business Advisory
Our Restructuring and Business Advisory team offers clear strategic guidance to businesses, creditors and stakeholders that are dealing with financial distress.

Our Restructuring and Business Advisory team advises companies, directors and other stakeholders on a wide range of matters. Whether you are seeking to rescue a company facing challenges, protect creditor interests or manage complex insolvency proceedings, our specialist lawyers will support you throughout the entire process.

Always understanding that these can be stressful and emotional situations, we help our clients to identify the right strategy. We are the preferred provider for a number of lenders and insolvency practitioners, including national lenders and accountancy firms, who trust us with difficult, sensitive and high-value matters.

Our experience covers a wide range of projects in many industries, including energy, construction, manufacturing, shipbuilding, haulage, real estate development, education, hotels and leisure, and IT. We work closely with sector specialists across the firm to ensure that we provide practical and commercial solutions to our clients.

Our expertise includes:

Strategic planning for distressed businesses
Turnaround assignments and workouts
Debt management and restructuring (including restructuring plans and schemes of arrangement)
Advisory work for lenders on distressed connections, including debt recovery and enforcement
Advising businesses in relation to customer or supplier failure and risk mitigation
Pre-pack sales, acquisitions and asset disposals
Administrations, liquidations and all forms of formal insolvency appointments
Complex contentious insolvency

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Partner

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Director

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Gillian Carty

Partner and Chair

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Kirsty Fryer

Senior Solicitor

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Christopher Garden

Director

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Suzanne Knowles

Director

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Fiona McKerrell

Partner

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Laura McMillan

Partner

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Hamish Patrick

Partner and Head of Financial Sector

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Serena Weir

Senior Associate

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