Helen Bates > Freeths LLP > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
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LS1 4LT
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Helen Bates
Work Department
Corporate Recovery, Insolvency and Restructuring
Position
Helen is a Director of Freeths and heads up the Corporate Recovery, Insolvency and Restructuring team in the Leeds office.
Helen is a well-known and highly regarded lawyer with over 17 years’ experience.
Helen acts for many national and regional Insolvency Practitioners, lenders, creditors, debtors, companies, directors, business owners, guarantors and individuals, dealing with all aspects of both corporate and personal insolvency, including director disqualification proceedings.
Helen undertakes both contentious and non-contentious work, regularly bringing or defending claims, advising businesses and individuals in financial distress and regularly advising the various parties to transactional matters, whether this be the seller, buyer, guarantors, funders or other parties to a transaction.
Helen has conducted numerous high-profile and complex matters, including various multi-million pound transactions and court cases.
Helen is known for her technical skills and her commercial and practical approach. She is often referred to as being robust, pragmatic and a “safe pair of hands” with an ability to always find a solution.
Career
Qualified in January 2004. 2002 – 2006 trained and kept on at Keeble Hawson, 2006 – 2008 Associate Solicitor at HLW Commercial Lawyers, 2008 – 2019 Clarion Solicitors (2008 Associate; 2012 Senior Associate; 2016 Legal Director)
Memberships
Vice Chair for the R3 Yorkshire Region Committee
Member of R3
The Law Society
Education
1997 – 2000: LLB (Hons) 2:1; 2000 – 2001: College of Law, York: LPC (Distinction)
Leisure
Active member of Leeds Rowing Club; travel; golf and diy/home renovations
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
The restructuring and insolvency team at Freeths LLP is led by Oliver Jackson in Sheffield, and Helen Bates in Leeds. The team specialises in complex corporate insolvency and restructuring for clients in industries from retail to construction, as well as the banking and financial services sectors. Managing associate Isobel Callaghan has experience leading on high-value work in this space, both contentious and non-contentious.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Sheffield and South Yorkshire
- Real estate > Environment
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Public sector > Local government
- Employment > Pensions
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire