Chambers Review
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Restructuring/Insolvency - Thames Valley
What the Team is Known For
Knights is recommended for all facets of insolvency and distressed business instructions and procedures. The team also has a niche offering helping franchisees and franchisors in commercial and contentious business recovery matters.
Strengths
They are absolutely brilliant at what they do. They try to understand the client and try to give them the best answers. They are so lovely to work with, a very approachable and down-to-earth firm.
Knights are a good outfit when comes to restructuring and insolvency.
Work Highlights
Knights advised KRE Corporate Recovery as the liquidators on the solvent liquidation of a company, having first acted for the company on the restructuring of its obligations in relation to sales of its shares in various subsidiaries.
Notable practitioners
Sonia Jordan offers expertise spanning both contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters.
A very strong individual with a wealth of experience and a highly professional attitude.
Sonia is very well respected and very knowledgeable. Clients love her. She is commercially minded but she really gets behind the clients; she gets to know how the client is feeling.
Sonia is a very thorough lawyer with real expertise in dealing with complex and unusual legal issues. She has excellent commercial instincts and appreciation of her clients' needs and requirements.
Sarah Jackson has substantial experience in complex insolvency litigation as part of a wider commercial disputes practice.
She is very good at dealing with clients who are a bit trickier, showing that she is listening to them. She is very good at handling tricky situations and getting the results needed.
Sarah is really, really good. She gets behind her client more than anyone I've ever seen. Her clients love her and she will do everything in her power to get the right result. I really rate her.