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Helen Bates

0845 126 4376 helen.bates@freeths.co.uk View profile View profile

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