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Mrs Christina Fitzgerald

cfitzgerald@isadoregoldman.com

Work Department

Insolvency

Position

Director

Career

Christina joined Isadore Goldman’s top ranked Restructuring and Insolvency team in September 2023, and deals with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious corporate and personal insolvency.

She is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and advises Insolvency Practitioners, accountants, banks, asset-based lenders and other commercial organisations. Christina has particular expertise in advising troubled professional practices and distressed charities, not for profit organisations and corporate simplification. She also acts for clients in a wide variety of disputes including corporate, shareholder and partnership litigation, complex contractual disputes and professional negligence.

Christina is the Immediate Past President of R3 (the trade association for the UK’s insolvency and restructuring professionals) and visited the regions in the UK to speak to members on topical issues. She engaged with the media (including BBC news at 6pm and 10pm) and parliamentarians, having been quoted in over 600 articles on the cost-of-living crisis and the rise in personal and corporate insolvency. Christina was appointment by the Insolvency Service as a champion for diversity and inclusion. She recently addressed the delegates at the IAIR conference (the international conference of Insolvency Regulators) in Belgrade on this issue.

Christina was the supporting lawyer advising the Supervisors of the IVA of Pramod Mittal, who is considered to be the UK’s largest bankrupt.

Most recently, Christina was part of the team that advised Geoff Rowley and Phil Armstrong of FRP Trading Advisory Limited as Joint Administrators of Truphone Limited, on the pre-packaged sale of the business and assets of Truphone to TP Global Operations Limited, a vehicle ultimately owned and controlled by well-known entrepreneurs, Hakan Koc and Pyrros Koussios. The transaction, which required both the approval of the Department of Business Enterprise and Industrial Strategy and of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), was undertaken following an M&A sale process undertaken by FRP’s corporate finance team and completed on 24 January 2023. This was the first time that OFSI had granted a licence permitting a pre-packaged administration sale without the need for High Court sanction. Truphone was valued at £410m in 2020.

Christina has also worked on over 60 out of court Administration appointments in the last 18 months and is highly efficient at completing pre-packaged sales for directors, Insolvency Practitioners and buyers.