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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)One of the most influential firms in the Scottish insolvency and restructuring market, and recently bolstered by the addition of Douglas Blyth from Dentons, Addleshaw Goddard
regularly handles the most significant mandates across the gamut of areas spanning financial restructurings and formal insolvency, to distressed real estate and hostile insolvency court work. The team services a broad range of businesses from SMEs to large multinational organisations, with practice head Jamie McIntosh
specialising in all aspects of insolvency, turnaround and corporate restructuring. The dual-qualified Tim Cooper heads up the contentious offering, while Addi Spiers leads the distressed real estate team and focuses on property finance projects, debt portfolio sales and acquisitions and management. Legal director Emma Widdowson acts for some of the UK’s top clearing banks and US funds, and managing associate Courtney Clelland is highly regarded.
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
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Projects
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Transport
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Construction
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Local government
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Employment