Corporate recovery & restructuring

Recognised as a market leading team, we provide advice on the full range of corporate recovery and restructuring assignments to banks, factors and discounters and financial institutions.  We also work with under-performing businesses and their directors, UK insolvency practitioners, private equity and venture capital houses, turnaround professionals, pension trustees and the Pension Protection Fund.

We can advise you on...
  • Strategy and risk management, including transaction and contingency planning
  • Directors' duties and responsibilities
  • Asset and debt recovery both in the UK and internationally
  • Formal corporate insolvencies, including administration, liquidation and receiverships
  • Debt restructurings, work-outs and rescues 
  • Solvent restructuring, schemes of arrangement and company voluntary arrangements 
  • Litigation, dispute resolution and mediation
  • Partnership issues, including restructuring and disputes
  • Options for distressed charities, voluntary organisations, Industrial and Provident societies and members' clubs
  • Personal insolvency

We also have strong creditor protection capability and are experienced in Proceeds of Crime Act assignments.

We have acted on numerous high profile cases including London & Edinburgh Group, Safe Solutions, Millfield Group plc, The Salvage Association, Golden Wonder, Tiny Computers, The Gadget Shop and Pilot Clothing. We also have experience of some of the large cross-border insolvencies of recent years, including BCCI, Enron, WorldCom and Barings.

We can be contacted around the clock…

Corporate Recovery and Restructuring legal issues often require an immediate response and one of our corporate recovery partners is available to give advice on a 24 hour emergency hotline, +44 (0)20 7759 6663.

We also have an e-mail enquiry service, through which recovery professionals can raise queries on any aspect of corporate recovery law and restructuring. Email the team at recovery@lg-legal.com.

The team operates a comprehensive seminar programme for its clients. We organise Europe's largest insolvency and restructuring conference for recovery professionals, attracting over 550 delegates to London each year. Our next conference is on Monday 8 November 2010 - full  details will be available in July 2010. 

Don't just take our word for it…

'This significant mid-market player has a historical focus on the insolvency side…"Commercial and efficient.”' Chambers UK 2010

"A dynamic force in the mid-market, the ‘technically strong and approachable’ LG continues to strengthen its ties with the banking community." The Legal 500 UK Edition 2009

Tom Withyman and Nick Pike are both listed in the Guide To The World's Leading Insolvency And Restructuring Lawyers. International Financial Law Review

"Clients like the 'careful and sensible'  lawyers here, stating that 'they’re very nice and easy to work with'." Chambers UK 2008