Clarion, Restructuring/Insolvency

About

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Understanding the commercial challenges businesses and their stakeholders face, the team are renowned for their commercial, pragmatic and solutions-focused approach which comes from the breadth and depth of experience dealing with businesses in financial difficulty. They have extensive experience working with management, shareholders and other stakeholders to restructure and rescue businesses facing financial difficulty. The team is a market leader in advising on formal insolvencies.

Chambers Review

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Restructuring/Insolvency - Yorkshire

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Clarion works with a wide client base, including insolvency practitioners and lenders, on a full range of insolvency and restructuring work. Its frequent clients include major clearing banks and private equity funds specialising in distressed businesses. The team advises on asset-based lending-related matters. The firm has notable experience implementing CVAs and assisting with corporate administrations.

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Work Highlights

Clarion acted Interpath Advisory as the administrators of York Gin Company in its sale of the business and assets to York Gin Drinks.

Strengths

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The team gives excellent technical advice and is friendly and approachable.

Restructuring/Insolvency respondent
UK

Clarion always provide very insightful advice in complex matters, understanding the main point of interest and orienting their strategy towards achieving it.

Restructuring/Insolvency respondent
UK

The team gives excellent technical advice and is friendly and approachable.

Restructuring/Insolvency respondent
UK

Clarion always provide very insightful advice in complex matters, understanding the main point of interest and orienting their strategy towards achieving it.

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Notable Practitioners

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Roger Hutton

Band 1

Roger Hutton is joint managing partner of the firm. He advises distressed businesses and their directors on restructurings, M&A and disputes. He is experienced in advising clients on both domestic and cross-border mandates.

Roger is thorough, friendly and good with technical issues; he is excellent from a strategy perspective.

Roger is really good at explaining things in clear and concise ways and his judgement is outstanding.

Roger's insight into litigation is always incisive. He has an excellent legal brain and an ability to identify the key issue in any scenario.

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Ryan Millmore

Head of Restructuring/Insolvency

Band 1

Ryan Millmore is head of the business restructuring and insolvency team at Clarion. He advises a full range of parties on corporate restructurings and insolvencies. He regularly works for professional service firms.

Ryan is an outstanding performer all around. He is my number one go-to lawyer for corporate insolvency advice.

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Alice Pratt

Band 3

Alice Pratt is well versed in both corporate and personal insolvency matters. She is particularly experienced in advising on administrations and liquidations, as well as offering expertise in bankruptcy matters.

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Ben Slack

Band 4

Ben Slack has a varied restructuring practice advising both administrators and management groups. He also works with corporates that are acquiring distressed assets and has expertise in acting for alternative lenders.

Ben is extremely proactive and helpful.

Clients like him and he's a capable restructuring lawyer.

Ben is very well-connected and is easy to deal with.

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