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Addleshaw Goddard
TEMPLE CHAMBERS
3 BURLINGTON ROAD
DUBLIN 4
Ireland

Work Department

Restructuring

Position

Doug Smith is a Partner and head of the Firm’s Corporate Restructuring Group. He has a broad range of experience in the area of commercial law and specialist knowledge of corporate restructuring law and insolvency law. He represents companies in financial difficulty, creditors of companies in financial difficulty, insolvency/restructuring office holders and the executives of companies in financial difficulty. He is involved in most of the significant Irish restructuring and insolvency cases in one capacity or another. He has also been involved in cross-border restructurings and insolvencies.

Education

Admitted as a solicitor in 1997
B.A. (1990) & LL. B (1993) University College, Galway

Lawyer Rankings

Ireland > Insolvency and corporate restructuring

(Hall of Fame)

Doug SmithAddleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard has a dedicated corporate recovery group, led by the highly-rated Doug Smith. It has made a further impact in cross-border schemes of arrangement, alongside its traditional diet of examinerships, liquidations, receiverships and bankruptcies. It represents most of the accountants that undertake insolvency engagements in the Irish market and acts for many of the banks that operate in the non-performing loan portfolios field. Personal bankruptcy is another forte. Legal director Jonathan Lynch is another senior member of the team. Terry Leggett has retired.