Jonathan is a Solicitor in the Restructuring & Insolvency team.

Jonathan has experience in both contentious and non-contentious insolvency. Jonathan frequently works with insolvency practitioners, companies, their directors and litigation funders.

Jonathan provides advice to clients in respect of pre-pack administration sales, insolvency proceedings, winding up petitions and options available to his clients prior to the onset of formal insolvency.

Examples of how Jonathan has supported clients include:

  • Undertaking investigatory work on behalf of insolvency practitioners and advising on the potential actions they may have against the previous directors of a company in administration;
  • Advising the administrators of a digital media company with assets situated in multiple jurisdictions on a pre-pack administration sale;
  • Advising litigation funders in respect of a claim for wrongful trading, breach of director duties and preferences;
  • Acting on behalf of an insolvency practitioner to obtain an administration order, affecting their appointment as administrator of a well-known North East brewery.
  • Advising the joint administrators throughout a trading administration which resulted in a sale of the business and assets, who also secured all of the jobs of the employees