Paul Keddie > Macfarlanes LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Macfarlanes LLP
20 CURSITOR STREET
LONDON
EC4A 1LT
England

Work Department

Finance

Position

Paul advises on a broad range of corporate restructuring and recovery issues.

His clients include companies in financial difficulties, their directors and shareholders, insolvency practitioners appointed over such companies, lenders to and other major creditors of troubled entities, investors interested in a “loan-to-own” strategy and buyers of businesses where there is an insolvency aspect.

Paul’s experience also includes a secondment at Warwick Capital Partners LLP. Paul is a qualified insolvency practitioner, having passed the Joint Insolvency Examination Board examinations in 2013.

Paul is the co-author of the Insolvency and Restructuring Manual, 3rd Edition, published by Bloomsbury Professional Ltd, the “England” chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Recovery & Insolvency 2020 and the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, also published by Bloomsbury Professional Ltd.

Career

Qualified 2009; partner 2021

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency

(Next Generation Partners)

Paul KeddieMacfarlanes LLP

The ‘very personable’ team at Macfarlanes LLP provides advice to a myriad stakeholders including corporates, investors and IPs which is ‘tailored to real circumstances and backed by technical detail’. Consequently, the team, which is led by Jat Bains (‘a fountain of knowledge across a range of restructuring matters’) regularly secures favourable results in domestic and cross-border matters, whether it be in relation to formal insolvency mandates, restructurings or fund-related transactional work. Himself a qualified IP,  Paul Keddie has ‘very impressive technical knowledge’, which he is able to draw upon to ‘suggest practical solutions to complex legal problems’ across a range of corporate restructuring and recovery matters.