With a diverse roster of clients spanning clearing banks, corporates, institutional funds and investors, TLT’s restructuring and insolvency team is well equipped to advise on complex corporate restructuring projects, financial restructurings, fraud and insolvency investigations and misfeasance claims. Alastair Lomax has extensive experience handling corporate reorganisations and restructurings and leads the team in Manchester. Claire Graham focuses her practice on contentious insolvency matters, including those concerning investigations, fraud, bankruptcy restriction applications and misfeasance claims, as does Lynsey Robinson, while Alastair Nokes is well versed in transactional restructuring.
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Insolvency and Corporate Recovery (North West)
Position

Partner

Career

Claire is a partner with over 20 years' commercial litigation experience.

Claire advises Insolvency Practitioners on contentious insolvency matters (including breaches of fiduciary duties and civil recovery actions). Claire has acted for the Insolvency Service for 20 years advising them in respect of company law and insolvency issues including investigations, director duties and public interest winding up.

Claire heads a team of investigators carrying out investigations into trading limited companies on behalf of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy, insolvent companies on behalf of insolvency practitioners and directors on behalf of the Insolvency Service.

Claire also has extensive expertise in commercial litigation and acts in respect of data privacy cases, procurement disputes and general contractual claims for bodies such as the Department of Health.

Claire is a Certified Investigator, is recognised as an expert in the field of Dispute Resolution by Legal 500 and is Chair of the North West Fraud Forum.

Jurisdiction: England and Wales

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  • 'The team at TLT went to great lengths to discuss and understand the predicament in which my company found itself. The team was available to discuss any questions I had and they could rely on all evidence I presented - which meant that our strategy was a success.'
  • 'Jon Hainey is a partner that has genuine and well-founded faith in his team. It is refreshing to have a partner that listens to the client and also supports them.'

Key clients

  • boohoo
  • JD Sports Fashion

Work highlights

Advising administrators from Teneo on their appointment to the companies behind dining brand TGI Fridays.