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Irwin Mitchell Offices

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Doug Robertson

Work Department
Business legal services - insolvency
Position
Doug has considerable experience in all aspects of insolvency, with a particular specialism in property insolvency. He acts for banks, insolvency practitioners and businesses in relation to any situation requiring insolvency or restructuring advice. Doug also has a large and successful practice dealing with both bulk/Fixed Charge LPA Receivership instructions and also bespoke and high-value LPA/Fixed Charge Receiverships and property recovery from a number of high street banks and other lenders.
Career
Trained Lupton Fawcett LLP; qualified 2002; partner Irwin Mitchell LLP 2013.
Memberships
Deputy Vice Chairman of NARA (Non-administrative Receiverships Association).
Education
College of St Hild & St bede, Durham University (LLB (Hons)).
Leisure
Enjoys his young family, walking his dogs, camping and skiing.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Fielding a large team spread across its Leeds and Sheffield offices, Irwin Mitchell‘s restructuring and insolvency practice handles the full breadth of contentious and non-contentious work for a client base of banks, lenders, insolvency practitioners and restructuring professionals. Doug Robertson and Tom Paton jointly lead the team from Leeds and Sheffield respectively; Robertson specialises in property insolvency, while Paton also leads the firm’s national creditors services team.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family: elsewhere in Yorkshire
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Public sector > Education
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Sheffield and South Yorkshire
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Employment > Pensions