Mr Jamie McIntosh > Addleshaw Goddard > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile

Addleshaw Goddard
EXCHANGE TOWER
19 CANNING STREET
EDINBURGH
EH3 8EH
United Kingdom

Work Department

Restructuring and insolvency.

Position

Jamie is head of corporate restructuring and insolvency in Scotland. He is a highly experienced partner, specialsing in all aspects of insolvency, turnaround and corporate restructuring, with particular experience on real estate-related restructurings. Jamie is qualified in Scotland and England and Wales and frequently deals with cross-border connections. Jamie acts for major banks and funds on restructuring and recovery work, while maintaining a strong network of contacts and intermediaries, including insolvency practitioners and corporate lenders. Jamie maintains a strong reputation in the market, recently acting for Bank of Ireland in connection with the hostile administration of a group of care homes. Clients single Jamie out for his ‘availability, approachability, flexibility and expertise’.

Career

Trained Anderson Strathern; trainee to partner Anderson Strathern 1998-2006; senior associate Dundas & Wilson 2006-10; partner HBJ Gateley 2010 to May 2017, partner Addleshaw Goddard June 2017 – date.

Languages

French, Spanish.

Memberships

Law Society of Scotland, Law Society of England & Wales, R3

Education

George Watsons College, Edinburgh; University of Dundee (1997 LLB Hons); University of Edinburgh (1998 DipLP).

Lawyer Rankings

Scotland > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery

(Hall of Fame)

Jamie McIntoshAddleshaw Goddard

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.