Heather Dobson > Moore Barlow > Southampton, England > Lawyer Profile
Moore Barlow Offices
GATEWAY HOUSE
TOLLGATE
EASTLEIGH
SO53 3TG
England
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Heather Dobson
Work Department
Insolvency and Restructuring
Position
Heather is a partner and head of insolvency and restructuring. She also holds a non-appointment-taking insolvency licence. Heather works with insolvency practitioners, directors, individuals, lenders, landlords, trade creditors, and other stakeholders, and has experience of a broad range of corporate and personal insolvency procedures, and rescue and restructuring strategies. She also works with companies and shareholders on solvent liquidations and tax efficient exit-planning.
Heather loves building strong relationships with clients; working collaboratively with them to understand what it is important to them, both commercially and personally, and helping them achieve their objectives.
In Chambers & Partners she is ranked as a “Leading Individual” and in Legal 500 as a “Next Generation Lawyer”. She has been independently recognised for her technical acumen, pragmatism, ability to achieve results, and strong client and interpersonal skills.
Delivering presentations and training to the insolvency profession is something she does frequently, (for example at R3 and SESCA conferences, and in-house to insolvency practitioner clients and their teams).
Memberships
Licenced insolvency practitioner, regulated by the Insolvency Practitioners’ Association
Member of R3 (The Association of Basins Recovery Professionals)
Member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association
Member of the Turnaround Management Association
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
(Leading individuals)Displaying a ‘wealth of experience‘, Heather Dobson and Rebecca Chaplin co-head the ‘very practical and knowledgeable‘ Southampton-based practice at Moore Barlow. Dobson handles both corporate and personal insolvencies for insolvency practitioners, individuals, lenders and trade creditors, while also advising companies on solvent liquidations. Chaplin regularly assists company directors with the pursuit of antecedent transactions, asset recoveries and administration applications. Having joined the team from Paris Smith LLP in December 2022, associate Christopher Parsons has a great deal of expertise in acting in bankruptcy and insolvency disputes.
Lawyer Rankings
- Insolvency and corporate recovery South East > Finance
- Leading individuals South East > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Hampshire
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Hampshire
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Hampshire
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Hampshire
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Public sector > Public sector