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Victoria Portman

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Work Department

Complex International Recovery Work

Position

Victoria is an expert advisor on both contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters.

She predominantly advises insolvency practitioners (including successor practitioners) and secured lenders on potential and actual claims, although she has experience in all insolvency practice areas.

Victoria is a confident and professional lawyer with a “can do” attitude. She is well regarded by her clients for providing clear and commercial advice delivered through top quality service. She is an experienced litigator, and she gives creative solutions and strategic advice as well as advising on the legal position.

Victoria has wide-ranging experience, and she has had numerous successes in relation to claims arising from tax fraud and tax avoidance, wrongdoing by former insolvency practitioners and former directors, against third parties to recover money, property or assets belonging to insolvent estates both in the context of bringing and defending such actions.

She also recently co-authored two articles in Corporate Rescue and Insolvency: “Insolvent estates of deceased persons: life lessons” (2021) 5 CRI 156 and “Unauthorised collective investment schemes” reform needed (2021) 6 CRI 199.

Career

Victoria trained at fcb manby bowdler in Wolverhampton and she qualified into their Commercial Litigation team. Victoria then spent 5 years as a solicitor in DLA Piper’s Restructuring Team in Birmingham carrying out a mixture of contentious and non-contentious insolvency work. She joined Mark Wilson’s specialist insolvency litigation team at Gateley in 2011 which has led to a successful progression in her career to her current position of Partner.

Education

LLB HONS Law Degree Plymouth University.