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Mark Cullingford

Mark Cullingford

Mark has over 20 years’ experience in advising on business recovery, restructuring and technical insolvency issues and has been consistently regarded in the Legal 500 as a leading practitioner in restructuring and business and personal insolvency since moving to the South West from Nottingham in 1999. Mark and the team’s practice includes pre-insolvency advisory work, advice to businesses on the brink of insolvency, distressed and pre-pack transactions including advice to executive and non executive directors/propietors, stakeholders, creditors and associates or insolvency practitioners engaged to oversee or conduct the transaction. Clients include a large number of regional and national firms of insolvency practitioners, lenders, creditors, businesses, their management and individuals. Mark is a regular presenter at R3 seminars and training courses. Some examples of Mark’s recent assignments have included: advising administrators of a national music retailer in dealing with multiple ROT claims, claims for conversion made against administrators and other disputes; advising an international vehicle manufacturer on the restructuring of its regional franchise arrangements following the insolvency of a group of franchisees/dealers; advising trustees of a charitable company on the restructuring and adjustment of pension schemes in light of pensions deficit arising on cessation; advising a publically owned trading company on restructuring and insolvency issues and negotiations with its sponsoring authority including related pensions and regulatory compliance issues. Insolvency practitioner clients include: Baker Tilly; BDO; Begbies Traynor; Bishop Flemming; FRP Advisory; Grant Thornton; Hazlewoods; KPMG; Kingston Smith; Leonard Curtis; Macintyre Hudson; Mazars; Milsted Langdon; Moore Stephens; Moorfields; Price Waterhouse Coopers; Smith Williamson; Undebt UK. Recent reported cases: Re European Home Retail plc, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills v Fowler and others [2012] (oppressive disqualification proceedings); Hicks and Ponting v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills [2013] Mithani, Director’s Disqualification (discharge of disqualification undertaking).
Simon Holdsworth

Simon Holdsworth

Simon is the firm’s Managing Partner and is responsible for managing the legal and operational side of the business.  The role includes producing and implementing the strategic plan while working closely with Heads of Department and Offices, individual partners and Business Services Directors to shape the firm to meet the accelerated pace of change in clients’ expectations. Simon joined Thrings in 1997 and has been a Partner since 2000. He was elected as Managing Partner in May 2013.
Fiona Kellow

Fiona Kellow

Fiona has many years’ experience as a family lawyer, specialising in all aspects of family law, particularly high-net-worth financial issues and children disputes. She has a versatile approach, not only to the range of family law issues, but also to the most appropriate methods of handling cases for her clients; from collaborative round the table scenarios to fully-contested litigation. To Fiona, the needs of each client and their desired outcomes are paramount. Each client receives honest and individual advice to help them make the right decisions. Fiona works closely with the client and, where necessary, a team of other professionals, including coaches, accountants, valuers, etc, to ensure that the client is fully prepared for the processes that they face. Fiona has featured in numerous radio interviews, on Radio 4’s ‘World at One’. Recent highlights include: acting for a Lloyds name in a multi-million-pound settlement involving detailed analysis of the Lloyds assets, which were fluctuating with economic changes; acting for a high-net-worth individual, negotiating a settlement dealing with hedge fund assets and significant overseas assets; acting for a farming client going through a divorce, the farm assets being arranged in complicated family trusts; assisting a client in obtaining leave of the court to remove her child from the jurisdiction to live in Dubai; assisting a client in obtaining an order to enforce maintenance payments against a non-paying former husband, including successful claim for costs; assisting numerous senior officers from HM Forces in relation to matrimonial settlements, in particular, negotiations in relation to their valuable pension funds; assisting and advising a senior bank official in relation to a detailed financial settlement. Fiona heads up the Private Client Department at Thrings and well as the Private Wealth Route to market with close links between her Private Client teams and the wider firm including commercial, property and agriculture to ensure that all Private Wealth clients have a full portfolio of legal advice from our experts.
Kevin McGuinness

Kevin McGuinness

Highly experienced corporate solicitor, specialising in serving the needs of mid-size companies, with particular expertise in advising AIM listed clients, their investors and advisers on all aspects of corporate law, including IPOs/flotations, secondary issues, public takeovers, tender offers, share buy-backs, and corporate reorganisations and demergers across a broad range of industry sectors. Recently advised Vicorp Plc on its AIM listing and associated placing, and regularly advises clients such as AIM-listed Peel Hotels Plc, Black Raven Plc, Secora Plc on a variety of corporate matters. Also has a particular interest in the sports sector and has significant experience of advising leisure companies, promoters, rights purchasers, and sponsors on all their sports law requirements, including corporate acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures, broadcast and media rights, branding, commercial and marketing rights, equipment leasing and distribution and licensing matters.
Jonathan Payne

Jonathan Payne

As a leading partner in the company commercial team, Jonathan advises on acquisitions and disposals, reorganisations, joint ventures, technology transfer/sharing and other high-value, high-profile commercial agreements. Sector specialities include motor trade, and financial services. Much of Jonathan’s work has an international dimension; he frequently acts on commercial transactions with an international market leader as well as acting for European and American owned clients in respect of their UK ventures.
Alex Pinhey

Alex Pinhey

Alex is a commercial property lawyer with particular expertise in acting for national and regional providers of self invested personal pensions (SIPPs) in the acquisition and disposal of property, and the leasehold issues arising during the life of the investments. He has advised on high-value acquisitions and disposals, and in respect of properties as diverse as fisheries, factories, and offices. Examples of Alex’s recent work include: acting on behalf of SIPP trustees in the £4m sale of the headquarters of a top 100 law firm; acting for an SPV in the investment acquisition of a multi-let office building; granting a lease of substantial rent to a national haulier.