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Blake Lapthorn

NEW KINGS COURT, TOLLGATE, CHANDLER'S FORD, EASTLEIGH, HAMPSHIRE, SO53 3LG, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 02380 857264
Fax:
Fax 02380 908092
Web:
www.bllaw.co.uk
Email:
Southampton, Portsmouth, Oxford, London

Adrian Owen

Tel:
Work +44 23 8085 7445
Email:
Blake Lapthorn

Work Department

Insolvency and business recovery.

Position

Adrian is a partner and head of the South Coast insolvency and business recovery team. Adrian has specialised in insolvency for over 20 years. He has worked on a range of significant insolvency assignments from a major restructuring project in the Far East to heading up the Treasury Solicitor’s companies and regulation team, responsible for public interest winding up and directors’ disqualification. Adrian has a focus on transactional work and has particular expertise in advising banks and asset-based lenders.

Career

Trained Freshfields, London 1988-90; qualified 1990; Bond Pearce solicitor (Plymouth) 1990-95, partner (Southampton) 1995-98; senior manager Freshfields Brukhaus Deringer, London 1998-2001; partner Gouldens, London 2001-03; senior lawyer the Treasury Solicitor, London 2003-05; partner Bond Pearce, Southampton 2005-07; partner Lamb Brooks, Basingstoke 2007-09; made partner at present firm 2009 to date. Publications of note: contributor to ‘Tolley’s Insolvency Law’ and ‘Lightman & Moss’ on the ‘Law of Administrators and Receivers of Companies’.

Member

Fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3); the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association.

Education

St Anselm’s College, Birkenhead; University of Leicester (1986 LLB First Class); Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (1987 LLM (2:1)); College of Law, Chester (1988 Law Society final exams); 1996 Joint Insolvency Examination Board – pass at first attempt leading to qualification as licensed insolvency practitioner.

Leisure

Travelling and theatre.

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