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Matt Leech
Work Department
Restructuring
Position
Matt specialises in all aspects of recovery, restructuring and insolvency work, with an emphasis on non-contentious corporate and property advice. He advises insolvency practitioners, fixed charge receivers, banks and other lenders, directors and shareholders.
Matt has undertaken secondments with Royal Bank of Scotland’s AIM team, Yorkshire Bank’s SBS team and National Australia Bank’s CRE team and has a good working knowledge of lenders’ internal processes, procedures and requirements.
Career
Qualified in 2008 with Cobbetts in the Manchester office. Joined Gateley in 2012 as one of the founding team of five in the new Leeds office (now 70+ and counting).
Memberships
Law Society; Institute for Turnaround’s Next Generation committee member.
Education
Manchester Grammar School; Durham University (BA English); Nottingham Law School (GDL and LPC).
Leisure
When not entertaining / being run ragged by his two young children, Matt is a drummer and member of a live Leeds band.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
(Next Generation Partners)Gateley Legal‘s business restructuring team is based in Leeds and led by Matthew Brown. The team has specialist expertise regarding distressed debt and equity work, alongside a strong insolvency litigation practice. ‘Fantastic’ Matt Leech manages the team’s principal bank relationships, and was promoted to partner in May 2022. Associate Kulsam Mulla has a particular focus on dishonesty and fraud work, including multi-jurisdictional carousel fraud.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Yorkshire and the Humber > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insolvency and corporate recovery Yorkshire and the Humber > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Real estate > Environment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire