Insolvency & Restructuring

We provide partner-led, commercial advice on insolvency, corporate restructuring, asset realisation, employment and high-value disputes across sectors.

Our Insolvency and Corporate Recovery offering provides outstanding service to a client base ranging from high-net-worth private individuals and SMEs, through to large corporations, as well as many of the country’s leading insolvency practitioners and financial institutions.

We focus on providing a high level of service to our clients at a cost level which, we believe, allows for greater partner involvement than can be found in other Scottish commercial law firms and provides the best value for money. In addition to Ross Webb and Euan McSherry in our Dispute Resolution department, our Insolvency and Corporate Recovery team draws on the expertise of a range of partners and lawyers within the firm, including Ritchie Whyte and Michael Currie in Corporate, Paul Jennings and David Orr in Commercial Real Estate, Nicola Gray and Karen Harvie in Employment and Myra Scott in Banking.

We are best known for the following:

Strong expertise advising on both pre and post appointment issues, contentious insolvency matters, corporate restructuring, employment issues and advising on all aspects of asset and real estate realisation
Sector expertise spanning energy, both Oil & Gas and Renewables, Construction, Retail and Food, Hospitality and Financial Services
High-value litigation and dispute resolution expertise, with in-house solicitor advocates who have rights of audience at the Court of Session, with experience in mediation, adjudication and arbitration
Agility - we are able to pull on a broad range of expertise, which allows us to resource and deliver on high-value, technical and urgent instructions. This is invaluable for the type of instructions we are entrusted with.
An ability to provide commercial advice on contentious, technical and high-value corporate and personal insolvency matters
An ability to provide insolvency and regime-specific contentious and non-contentious employment law advice under the time pressures that often accompany insolvency

We are able to adopt a creative approach to funding, are willing to share risk with our clients and work closely with a panel of trusted litigation funders that can provide finance for claims.

Particularly well-suited to the insolvency market, these funding solutions relieve the strain on clients’ cash flow and working capital, often making claims financially viable where otherwise that would simply not be possible.