Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP‘s team maintains a sector-agnostic offering, with a strong reputation across the healthcare, automotive, and energy sectors, among others. The group advises on a range of restructurings in addition to regularly handling complex insolvency mandates, acting for both lenders and borrowers. Carl Allen leads the team in London, drawing on experience acting for lenders, corporate clients, and insolvency practitioners. Allen is increasingly active in multinational work, with the support of the firm’s extensive international network of offices. The group expanded in 2026 with the recruitment of Simon Thomas from Goodwin Procter.
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- This firm is innovative, responsive, and diligent. They handle highly complex assignments with ease and work to challenging deadlines.
- Carl Allan and Courtney Lonsdale are excellent at being on top of the details on a number of cases at once, and nothing is ever too much trouble. They work really hard, and the quality of output is unrivaled.
- She is technically excellent and very responsive.
- Eversheds has a strong team, across Restructuring but also the Real Estate and Regulatory teams that we also use. It is a name you can rely on for quality.
Key clients
- Kroll Advisory
- Alvarez & Marsal
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Interpath Advisory
- Teneo
- AlixPartners
- Grant Thornton
- S&W
Work highlights
Advised the Board of Totally Plc, a nationally critical outsourced provider of urgent and elective healthcare services to the NHS, on an accelerated M&A restructuring process that preserved uninterrupted NHS services to over two million patients, saved more than 600 jobs and achieved full repayment of secured bank debt.
Advised Kroll, as administrators of the Pure Legal Group, on novel and complex insolvency-related professional indemnity and “after the event” insurance claims arising from the administration of this significant North of England claims management business.
Advised a variety of confidential lending institutions on security reviews, contingency planning and enforcement strategy in respect of their customers across multiple sectors, including banking, real estate, automotive and consumer finance.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Practice head
Carl Allen
Other key lawyers
Simon Thomas