Paul Caldicott

Paul is a partner at Blake Morgan and leads the Business Support and Insolvency team.

Paul is a specialist corporate restructuring and insolvency solicitor and a qualified insolvency practitioner, dealing with non-contentious advisory work and all forms of litigation recovery work. He regularly works on behalf of banks, asset based lenders, restructuring and turnaround professionals, directors and management teams and charity trustees.

With over 20 years’ experience, Paul regularly advises boards of directors confronted with insolvency and he has been involved in numerous confidential restructurings (particularly in the healthcare, media and retail sectors). Paul adopts a commercial approach and he is adept at delivery solutions to fast-moving situations and experienced at all forms of formal insolvency process, including administration, receivership, schemes, restructuring plans and monitorship.

Paul has advised numerous charities facing funding shortfalls, negotiated with the PPF to exit DB schemes via a CVA and assisted two local authorities restructure a jointly owned educational services charity,

Paul also has substantial contentious insolvency and Company Act (shareholder disputes and derivative actions) experience, pursuing and defending antecedent transactions, wrongful trading and misfeasance actions, in all the major courts, including the Court of Appeal. His litigation experience spans emergency injunctive relief, asset tracing (UK, EU and America) and repatriation and pursuing money claims.