Ruth Hartnell-Thorne > Clarke Willmott LLP > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile

Clarke Willmott LLP
1 GEORGES SQUARE
BATH STREET
BRISTOL
BS1 6BA
England

Work Department

Insolvency

Position

Ruth is a partner and has a wide range of experience of insolvency law in both areas of personal bankruptcy and corporate insolvency. In particular she has undertaken and assisted on a wide variety of work including possession and sale applications and asset recovery, challenging transactions at undervalue and preference payments, illegal dividend payments, private examinations of bankrupts and directors of insolvent companies, directors disqualification proceedings, annulment applications, wrongful trading and misfeasance proceedings.

Lawyer Rankings

South West > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery

Regarded by clients as ‘innovative and commercial‘, Clarke Willmott LLP‘s restructuring and insolvency team’s varied workload sees them advising on breach of duty claims against directors, pre-packs, and civil recovery claims for multiple clients. The team is co-led by Martin Askew, described as a ‘leader in the sector’, and Ken MacLennan,whose expertise extends to CVAs and trading bankruptcies. Contentious insolvency expert Ruth Hartnell-Thorne and the ‘fiercely pragmatic’ Stephanie Bishop are further key contacts at the firm.