Muckle LLP maintains a market-leading debt recovery practice with a strong track record acting for both regional and national clients, including individuals, corporations, and public sector bodies. The ‘outstanding’ Beverley Oliver now co-heads the team alongside new arrival Colin Churchward, who joined the team in January 2024 and has extensive experience handling volume debt recovery litigation. Oliver is a seasoned debt recovery specialist with expertise in both commercial and consumer debts, acting for sole traders and large corporations.

Tahir Bashir heads Aberdein Considine’s national debt recovery offering from the firm’s Newcastle office, with the team acting for banks, asset-based lenders, building societies, and mortgage servicers. The group handles a high volume of commercial debt recovery work and attracts praise for its ‘proactive, first class service and advice‘. Described as ‘exceptionally knowledgeable in the field of mortgage law,’ Neil Patterson offers significant expertise in handling secured lending matters and mortgage litigation defence.

The dedicated debt recovery practice at Sintons LLP is recommended for expertise in pre-legal collection work, litigation, and insolvency work, handling both invoice recovery and civil recovery matters. Angus Ashman and Allison Thompson jointly oversee the department; Ashman handles high-value volume collection litigation, while Thompson is well versed in letters before action and County Court claims as part of her varied caseload.

Situated within the firm’s wider debt, insolvency, and corporate restructuring department, the debt recovery team at Ward Hadaway LLP handles recovery work for lenders spanning a broad range of sectors, both in the region and at a national level. Vicki Alexander heads the practice, which also draws on the expertise of Steven Petrie and Jane Garvin; Petrie, who also leads the firm’s commercial dispute resolution offering, acts for creditors and local authorities with an emphasis on the construction industry, while Garvin is an insolvency specialist. Also in the core team is Olwyn Rice, who handles both secured and unsecured debt recovery work.