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Tim Symes

+44 (0)20 7822 8113 tsymes@stewartslaw.com View profile

Work Department

Partner in the Insolvency and Asset Recovery department

Position

Tim is an expert in insolvency and asset recovery disputes, helping insolvency office-holders and stake-holders to investigate, fund and launch estate claims leading to asset recoveries.

Tim has spent two decades running contentious insolvency litigation and asset recovery cases, encompassing director misfeasance, fraud, antecedent transactions, and claims against third parties.

Experience

• Advising liquidators on £200m foreign exchange fraud across multiple jurisdictions
• Advising group of prime city real estate landlords in £350m hostile ‘loan to own’ debt buyout and administration application
• Advising group of non-UK creditors on recovery of £40m of suspected assets concealed in trusts in multiple offshore jurisdictions
• Advising liquidators on realisation of claim concerning £1bn in bonds
• Advising a Greek insolvency office-holder of a company with debts of £100m on recognition and asset recovery proceedings in the UK

Career

On qualifying in 2002, Tim joined BDB Pitmans. Tim went on to found the Restructuring and Insolvency Group at DMH Stallard to establish the firm as a leading insolvency practice. Tim joined Stewarts in September 2020.

Memberships

• R3
• INSOL International
• City of London Law Society Insolvency Committee

Personal

Tim and his partner have two beautiful daughters and a dog called Fred. Tim holds a private pilot’s license and likes to get up in the air when he can; he is also a pretty good windsurfer.