Mr Tim Cooper > Addleshaw Goddard > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Tim Cooper
Work Department
Restructuring and insolvency.
Position
Tim specialises in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring and recovery across a wide range of industry sectors. His experience includes multi-disciplinary corporate restructuring, management and bank-led distressed turnaround, restructuring and distressed acquisitions. Tim has particular experience in the asset-based lending sector, distressed refinance and pension scheme-related distressed restructurings. Career highlights include: in 2013, Tim led a multi-discipline, firm-wide team advising on the high-profile liquidation of The Scottish Coal Company; in 2014, Tim advised the administrators of Ferguson Shipbuilders. More recently Tim has acted for the administrators on the trading administration of Penman Engineering Ltd.
Career
Trained John A B Ridley; qualified 1997, DLA 1997-2004, Squire Sanders Hammonds (now Squire Patton Boggs); Solicitor, Partner HBJ Gateley 2012 to May 2017, Partner Addleshaw Goddard June 2017 – date.
Languages
Conversational German and French.
Memberships
Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3); R3 council regional representative for Scotland; chair R3 in Scotland Committee; member of the R3/ICAS Scottish Technical Committee; Law Society of England and Wales; registered in Scotland as a foreign expert.
Education
Thomas Rotherham College; Staffordshire University (1992 LLB Hons); Edinburgh University (1993 LLM); Leeds Metropolitan University (1995 DipLP).
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
(Hall of Fame)‘Combining “Magic Circle” expertise and a depth of service on a national level’, Addleshaw Goddard‘s practice continues to act on a variety of high-profile insolvency and corporate recovery mandates, and possesses one of the pre-eminent restructuring offerings in the market. Group lead Jamie McIntosh
‘delivers first-class service’ across insolvencies and restructurings and retains close connections to an enviable roster of financial institutions and insolvency practitioners. Tim Cooper ‘has excellent knowledge in the areas where insolvency and environmental legislation overlaps’ and is routinely instructed on both contentious and non-contentious matters, while Addi Spiers is highly reputed for her work in the distressed real estate space. Emma Widdowson provides further corporate restructuring capabilities, especially in regard to UK clearing banks, and Courtney Clelland is singled out by clients as a key name to note. Sophia Harrison joined the group in February 2025 from Burness Paull LLP, contributing her deep knowledge of court ordered restructurings and asset recovery.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Scotland > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insolvency and corporate recovery Scotland > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Projects
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Transport
- Real estate > Construction
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Local government
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property