Suzanne Knowles

Suzanne advises businesses, lenders and insolvency practitioners on all aspects of corporate restructuring and insolvency. This includes debt restructurings, insolvency appointments, insolvent business sales and acquisitions, schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans, and advising boards of distressed corporates. She has extensive transactional experience across a range of sectors, including retail, real estate, charities and healthcare. Following secondments to UK clearing banks, Suzanne has also gained first-hand experience of managing distressed debt connections.

 

  • Advising the directors of a Scottish manufacturing business in connection with their duties to creditors, and subsequently acting for the administrators of the company in relation to the sale of the company's business and assets.
  • Advising the liquidators of a Scottish charity in connection with all aspects of the liquidation, including communications with stakeholders and the sale of the charity's assets.
  • Acting for the buyer in an acquisition of a distressed business in the healthcare sector from its administrators.
  • Advising lenders in relation to security enforcement, distressed debt restructurings, debt forgiveness arrangements and insolvency appointments.
  • During secondments to three major banking institutions, dealing with distressed debt issues involving high-risk trading customer connections.

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