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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.

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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.

Work Highlights

  • Clarion acted for Sports Direct on its purchase of shares and debt of Matchesfashion in a £50 million deal.

Strengths

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The Clarion team are personable and easy to work with.

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Given the experience of the team members and in particular the senior individuals, there aren't many situations that are new to Clarion.

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Clarion has a very strong team on complex and sophisticated matters, with a proven track record. They provide excellent communication with all involved in fast-moving matters.

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Clarion is a very good one-stop shop for all insolvency matters. They have a good ethos and real team mentality, which is why they do well.

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Clarion have the ability to manage large-scale insolvency and restructuring related litigation of a kind which one would typically associate only with large City of London firms.

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Notable Practitioners

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Roger Hutton
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Roger Hutton
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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 fierce in your corner.

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Ryan Millmore
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Ryan Millmore
Head of Restructuring/Insolvency
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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 services firms.

Ryan is very helpful; he gives good, clear and commercial advice. He is quick to respond.

Ryan is very diligent. He is like an encyclopedia and is very good.

Ryan is very personable, highly commercial and technically excellent. He is always calm, whatever the situation, and he brings out the best in the teams he works with for the benefit of the client.

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Alice Pratt
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Alice Pratt
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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.

Alice is an excellent adviser, adept with the law but also practical in applying it to the many situations which face an insolvency practitioner, with a varied portfolio of matters.

Alice is very technical in her mindset and easy to deal with. She attacks the work with purpose and knows where she wants to get with it.

Alice Pratt is technically excellent and a go-to for insolvency and matters requiring technical expertise and strategy.

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Roger Hutton
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Roger Hutton
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Ryan Millmore
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Ryan Millmore
Head of Restructuring/Insolvency
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Alice Pratt
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Alice Pratt
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Ryan Millmore

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