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Irwin Mitchell Offices
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CRAWLEY, WEST SUSSEX
RH10 1JH
England
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Andrew Walker
Work Department
Restructuring and Insolvency
Position
National head of restructuring and insolvency. Specialises exclusively in turnaround and insolvency matters, including advising banks, asset-based lenders, boards of directors, insolvency practitioners, debtors and other creditors on all matters arising where insolvency is likely unless action is taken by restructuring or where a formal insolvency is imminent or has occurred. Instructed by HSBC, RBS, NatWest, Lloyds Banking Group, Santander, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, Begbies Traynor, GT, Baker Tilly. Advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters.
Career
Trained Irwin Mitchell; qualified 1994; partner 2001. Trustee of Yorkshire Dance.
Memberships
R3.
Education
Honley High School; Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Leisure
Climbing, opera, skiing, sculpture, tennis.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
The ‘thoroughly meticulous‘ group at Irwin Mitchell
displays ‘excellent strength in depth‘ when assisting asset-based lenders and clearing banks with investigations, actions brought by liquidators, and risk management issues. Andrew Walker leads the Gatwick-based practice with his broad experience in advising turnaround professionals and private equity funds.
Yorkshire and the Humber > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Irwin Mitchell‘s ‘excellent’ restructuring and insolvency offering is headed up by Doug Robertson in Leeds and Tom Paton in Sheffield. The Leeds team specialises in acting for banks and other lenders, with particular expertise in LPA/FCR work. In Sheffield, the team assists insolvency practitioners both locally and nationally with corporate restructuring and insolvency assignments. Andrew Walker leads the national practice.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Construction
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Hampshire
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Hampshire
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Hampshire
- Public sector > Public sector
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment