Bethan Moore > Shoosmiths LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile

Shoosmiths LLP
THE XYZ BUILDING
2 HARDMAN BOULEVARD, SPINNINGFIELDS
MANCHESTER
M3 3AZ
England

Work Department

Partner, Corporate Restructing and advisory

Position

Bethan Moore is a partner in the Corporate Restructuring and Advisory team.
Bethan has a particular focus on non-contentious restructuring, corporate recovery and turnaround mandates.
Bethan’s clients include banks, asset based lenders, financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, directors and other key stakeholders in financially distressed businesses. She has extensive experience advising lenders, insolvency practitioners and receivers on distressed real estate.
Bethan has substantial experience in the retail sector; having worked on a number of recent high profile retail sector insolvencies  and restructurings.
Her recent experience includes:
 – advising the administrators of a high profile fashion retailer on the disposals of its real estate portfolio, including the sale of its online sales distribution centre;
– advising the administrators on all aspects arising out of the trading administration of a group of companies operating in the travel and leisure sector. Specifically, advising the administrators on the transfer of the group’s portfolio of circa 40 hotels;
– advising a funder on the restructuring of a group of companies operating in the construction sector;
– advising the special servicer and receiver of a portfolio of circa 30 retail stores; and
– advising an asset based lender on the funding and restructuring of a group of companies operating in the recruitment sector.

Lawyer Rankings

North West > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery

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Bethan Moore – Shoosmiths LLP

The ‘truly diverse’ team at Shoosmiths LLP has the ‘incredibly helpful’ Sarah Teal at its helm, who notably ‘champions the role of women, especially in the workplace’. It is well-equipped to act and advise on high-profile administrations, particularly in the retail sector, such as that of the four Joules entities which were sold to Next, a matter with a value of £40m; senior associate Hollie Wrigley was a key advisor on this. Bethan Moore, noted as ‘technically strong’, has significant experience advising clients, being large clearing banks, alternative lenders and distressed companies, on non-contentious restructurings.