Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
E

Eminent Practitioners

Litigation

Northern Ireland

12 Years Ranked

E

Eminent Practitioners

Restructuring/Insolvency

Northern Ireland

21 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Michael Neill

UK

Practice Areas

Michael Neill is Head of A&L Goodbody's Belfast office. He is also a partner in both our Restructuring and Litigation departments.

Michael specialises in all areas of business recovery work, which includes advising local and national insolvency practitioners, major banks, and other creditors. Michael also conducts a wide variety of financial services and insolvency-related litigation. He acts on behalf of financial institutions as well as life, property, pension and investment companies. He has also acted for banks, companies, creditors and insolvency practitioners in the majority of high profile corporate failures in Northern Ireland in recent years.

Areas of expertise include:

• Restructuring & Insolvency

• Litigation & Dispute Resolution

• Post-Brexit Trade: The Windsor Framework

Professional Memberships

Michael is a member of the Law Society of Northern Ireland (1997). He is also a former Chairman of R3 (The Association of Business Recovery Professionals) for the Northern Ireland region. He has professional I and II qualifications from the Institute of Chartered Accountants and also writes extensively in the areas of corporate recovery and insolvency.

Career

Experience Advising:

- Restructuring of the Quinn Group (indebtedness of circa. €1.2bn).

- KPMG as special liquidators of IBRC which is currently the largest, most complex and cross jurisdictional insolvency on the island of Ireland.

- The major creditors in connection with the Administrations of Carillion, Nortel (UK) Limited, Thermomax Limited, Reid Transport Limited and the Jermon Group.

- Numerous banking and financial institutions in connection with contentious litigation.

- Various distressed loan purchasers in respect of a wide variety of restructuring and enforcement matters arising from their purchase of loan portfolios.

- The Administrators of the Taggart Group.

Education

Queen's University Belfast

LLB (Law & Accounting)

Queen's University Belfast

IPLS

Law Society of Northern Ireland

Solicitor

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