The 'incredibly responsive' team at Macfarlanes LLP provides 'solutions-focused and highly technical advice' to a wide range of creditors, investors, debtors and IPs, primarily on mandates within the domestic market. Funds account for a significant volume of work, including firmwide private equity sponsors eliciting portfolio restructuring mandates as well as credit funds as holders of debt and in a special situation context. Team head Jat Bains is 'a fountain of knowledge' on formal insolvency processes, as well as more transactional work in the space, including in the context of distressed M&A and loan-to-own strategies. Paul Keddie is 'technically brilliant and incredibly responsive', and provides added insight on restructuring/insolvency matters by dint of his own IP qualification.
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Testimonials
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- 'The incredibly responsive team provides solutions-focused and highly technical advice.'
- 'Jat Bains is a fountain of knowledge and well connected across the market.'
- 'Paul Keddie is technically brilliant and incredibly responsive.'
Key clients
- Eternity Sky Investments Limited, a company within the Huarong Group
- Anglian Windows Limited
- Buzz Bingo
- Interpath (James Clark and Richard Harrison)
Work highlights
Advised the insolvency office holders of Plexus Legal LLP (in administration) and other companies within the Plexus group on the sale of their business and assets to Axiom Ince Ltd through a pre-packaged administration. The firm has since advised the administrators on the very-high-profile issues surrounding client monies of Axiom Ince.
Acting for Eternity Sky on a petition for an insolvency administration order against the estate of Zhang Xhenxin.
Acted for Anglian, an entity ultimately held by Alchemy Partners, in its purchase of certain assets from a large listed competitor, Safestyle, which had entered administration.
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Practice head
Jat Bains
Other key lawyers
Paul Keddie; Lois Horne; Amy Walker; Tim Bromley-White; Adam Ridley