‘For a smaller firm they have a remarkable amount of excellent partners and top quality advisers. They are commercial in their approach and are always available to discuss matters arising. They work very hard for their clients and provide creative solutions to problems,’

‘Stacey Jones is really excellent. She is commercial, clever and very approachable. She has a no nonsense manner and is always practical and proactive. She is a real super star and definitely one to watch in the future.’

‘Exceedingly professional – precise, clear, timely, complete, accurate, without arrogance or condescension. London levels of competence for much reduced charges.’

‘The team as a whole is very strong in both their insolvency technical knowledge and their practical experience. They have excellent relationships with insolvency practitioners which contributes to a brilliant real-world understanding of the market. As counsel, they are a joy to work with: technically strong but also friendly and collaborative.’

‘Tania Clench is excellent: very commercial and client-friendly. She is excellent at explaining the intricacies of insolvency law to clients in a user-friendly way. She is also great as an instructing solicitor – lovely manner, and great at keeping you up to date.’

‘Joanna Ford is also excellent – super knowledge of the subject area and great at client handling.’

‘The team is extremeley well known in the local Reading market place. Their team is diverse and they collaborate well with colleagues in London and Birmingham in order to provide the best team and advice appropriate to teh project.’

‘Nicola Kirk is a standout partner both at Gateleys, but also within the wider Reading community as well as Insolvency Partners generally. She is extremely approachable, will make herself available at short notice and will give clear and concise advice. She sits on the local Turnaround Management Association Committee and the work she and the team do is great for the local insolvency and turnaround professional community.’

‘I work with Nicola Kirk who is diligent and commercial in the advice she gives.’

‘Nick Oliver is probably now the premier restructuring and insolvency lawyer in Hampshire. He has a wealth of experience and has a proven track record of building an effective team around him wherever he goes.’

‘Isadore Goldman have built a solid reputation in the Insolvency sector. Acting for a wide range of Insolvency Practitioners as well as acting for individual directors. Clearly well connected and well respected within the insolvency sector. ’

‘ Nick Oliver clearly knows his stuff. Delivers advice in a clear and concise manner. Worked collaboratively with Nick and Magdalena Wegrzyn on a large matter. Approachable with solid professionalism. Nick and his team helped ensure a contentious issue for directors was resolved on commercial terms. ’

‘Rebecca Walker is great re the insolvency issues and Lisa Watson Cooke is great on the charity side.’

‘Rebecca Walker is extremely professional, very responsive and pro-active during our engagements.’

‘Commercial, efficient, great technical advice and very approachable.’

‘Extremely knowledgeable about the legislation, very hard-working and responsive.’

‘Heather Dobson is highly knowledgeable in this technical area, extremely hard-working and ready to go the extra mile Rebecca Chaplin – also very knowledgeable and hard-working and a tough litigator.’

‘A dream to work with. The advice is clear, concise, well thought through and delivered carefully and in an unambiguous way that clears the path to a successful outcome every time.’

‘David Steinberg has the wonderful ability to turn a complex scenario into a run of the mill exercise, to draw out the risk and lay it untroubled to one side. His calm, thoughtful and decisive bedside manner makes him the perfect doctor for all my insolvency ailments.’

‘Capacity to close difficult transactions in a time sensitive and financial difficulty context. Very reasonable fees relative to the level of competency and service delivery.’

‘A well rounded team now lead by one of the best insolvency partners. Dedicated, technically gifted and a commercial advisor. ’

‘Oliver Fitzpatrick – a partner who has grown into the head of his department and amassed a great following. A gentleman of insolvency. ’

‘Oliver Fitzpatrick has taken over the reins and is currently rebuilding the practice. He works hard.’

‘Strength in depth.’

‘Availability and flexibility.’

‘Birketts are an excellent high quality regional practice. We work with them on many and varied matters and have never been disappointed.’

‘Katie James. Very capable of absorbing a detailed history, evidence in multiple forms and various interlinked but distinct legal issues. Clear in advice and pragmatic. ’

‘Collaborative working atmosphere amongst the team with different fee earners agile at looking after colleague’s files. ’

‘Katie James is pragmatic and very determined. ’

‘A good strong practice. Wide ranging skills across the firm and a good dynamic team.’

‘Andrew Walker and team are very good.’

‘Practical and pragmatic tailored advice.’

‘A great team, providing quality and thorough advice in a timely manner.’

‘Both Mike Pavitt and Lucy Andrews, are always quick to respond. It’s comforting to know you can rely on them both when you need legal advice on what can be quite technical matters. ’

‘Mike Pavitt leads a small but great team. Technically they are very good and always prepared to go the extra mile for the client’

‘Simon Carroll, the partner overseeing my case, feels very aligned with my own values. I trust his judgement, I appreciate his candour, and I know (whether I think it at the time or not) he is correct in the advice and recommendations he provides me.’

‘The Birkett Long Insolvency Team is well known in the area and has an excellent reputation. They are small but agile and respond to changes in direction very well.’

‘Kevin is well known in the area and has a wealth of experience. His approach is very methodical and there is no weakness in a case put forward by hi clients can be assured of a result.

‘The team in this department are dilligent and thorough in all that they do’

‘A focused team with a great feeling for insolvency and debt recovery at single individual level to larger corporate challenges following a process all the way through to the courts with a minimum of fuss and a great attention to the detail required to achieve the correct outcome for the client Constant updates on the process potential outcomes and costs of achieving those outcomes invaluable to the client.’

‘They are technically able and use their knowledge pragmatically to help provide solutions .’

‘They are more approachable than many solicitors and willing to spend time to understand their clients issues .’

‘Michael and his team provide a very quick, efficient and effective service, getting results when needed. Their advice is practical and easy to understand and tailored to the client’s needs.’

‘Michael Lynch is my main point of contact. He always makes time to be available to listen to client needs and seeks to deliver quickly an efficiently. He has deep knowledge of insolvency legislation and always manages client expectations.’

‘All companies are made great (or not) by the quality and drive of their staff, the team I have dealt with at DMH have this in abundance.’

‘Freeths provide first class legal advice alongside a deep understanding of needs and objectives as as business. Freeths always go that “extra mile” and look for ways in which they can add value for the client. They do this by putting in the effort to understand us as clients, to know what our plans and objectives are, so that they can see opportunities for us that we may have missed. Freeths are excellent partners to work with and not just exceptional advisers. ’

‘Simon Hobbs is a first class litigator. He provides clear and thorough advice, always setting out objectively the strengths and weaknesses of any given matter. Simon will set out a clear path for dealing with a case from the outset so that we as the client have a good understanding of how the case will be managed. Simon understands the importance of having a good strategy and always thinking one step ahead.

‘Tom Holden is incredibly hardworking with excellent technical knowledge. He is tenacious and is always striving to deliver the best outcome. Tom provides sensible and pragmatic advice.’

‘Penningtons were amazing and very easy to deal with and communicated on an extremely easy to understand level and told you exactly how it was and guided me through the whole experience in a professional manner. I always knew where I stood financially too with regards to billing and costs etc. ’

‘Rebbecca Andrews Walker and Matthew Letts made the journey as easy as it could have been and communicated extremely well and gave me excellent professional advice and most of all had my back at all times. I could not have asked for a better team and were very good at holding my hand throughout the matter and were very reassuring and helpful at all times. Top Top team and actually fun /enjoyable to work with. They never sugar coated things and told you exactly how it was and what to expect but most of all they strongly defended my corner at all times and managed to settle the matter as quickly as possible with the best possible financial outcome. Rebecca certainly lived up to her reputation as one of the best in the industry and you would definitely want Penningtons on your team and side! I would highly recommend this team and firm. ’

‘The team are very structured and analytical in ensuring they have all of the information to correctly advise – also they are not work shy and put in a lot of hours outside of the normal 9am – 5pm which i think is unique and I have not come across this before. All of the team are approachable and easy to work with. They also have alot of diverse skill set within the team, which would cover most basis which is easy for the client. They had also been transparent around costs and sent regular weekly updates of chargeable work, in a clear way, whilst Pennigntons costs are higher then a smaller firm, you do get what you pay for and the costings easily reflected the level of skill we had been receiving. Whilst their knowledge wasnt advanced as mine for the industry we work in, they learnt very quickly and took an interest in understanding certain functions and processes to better support our case. ’

‘The team are well established and a corner stone of the Reading Legal Market Place. Their reputation is for excellent delivery of their work at a fair price.’

‘David Murray is a well known individual in the Reading market place giving excellent advice in the Corporate and Insolvency markets. ’

‘Blaser Mills has a well established insolvency practice (with good cross-over with a very effective debt recovery arm). ’

‘Jackie Ray and Daria Stepien provide a very effective partner and Legal Executive offering. ’

‘The Debenhams Ottaway Insolvency and Corporate Recovery team are well versed in contentious insolvency and non-contentious restructuring. Working seamlessly together they have a broad and impressive client base and an enviable skill set. ’

‘The very well-connected Alex Neale acts for an impressive range of clients and insurers. He is thorough and over the details of any case, whilst pragmatic in his dealings with his opponent. Extremely knowledgeable and bright.

‘The thoroughly excellent Juliet Schalker is a standout lawyer who delivers great results for her clients.’

‘Pleasure to deal with; take ownership and produce results’

‘Extremely responsive and practical’

‘Approachable. London service at Dorking rates.’

‘Strong commercial practice that provides timely advice and guidance. Practice consists of a team of experts covering a range of disciplines providing joined up solutions’

‘Team led by Ian Wood-Smith. Consider hime to be a very sage pair of hands who gets the very best out of his team. Stand out is Robert Woodhouse who has provided excellent service and advice, sometimes within very tight deadlines.’

‘The team at IBB have been incredibly responsive and have collaborated well with other professionals in what has been an incredibly frustrating and time consuming case. They have been very professional in terms of billing and have always striven to give the best value for money to their clients. ’

‘We have worked with Sonia Jordan for several years now and her professionalism, knowledge of bankruptcy and insolvency law, attention to detail and enthusiasm has been second to none. In what is a very complex and frustrating case Sonia has provided us with regular updates and has always remained professional and cheerful only wanting to get the best results for us. She continues to work hard and remain positive and that is really appreciated by us. One of the things that we value most is that she has not given up when many others would have. ’

‘I work with the Insolvency Team who always have been responsive to needs and developments in cases. Good advice and quick response.’

‘Small team of insolvency solicitors with keen understanding of what is required in the contentious insolvency litigation area. Excellent knowledge of practical solutions to insolvency related problems and attention to detail very good. ’

‘Petra Van Dijk is a very competent lawyer, who has a professional approach to instructions and provides valuable insight to the same.’

‘Petra Van Dijk is friendly, approachable and very determined in her approach.’

‘Knowledge and experience ’

‘Highly professional and effective team -provincial prices but still able to punch above their weight in heavyweight insolvency litigation. ’

‘David Perry is the go to guy for contentious insolvency – commercially savvy and very experienced’

‘Hard working, dynamic, pragmatic and commercial and a wide knowledge of the subject. Comes up with commercial answers and has a good wider team around her in other disciplines.’

‘Partner led engagements, advice provided is always first class’

‘Melia Hirst has excellent knowledge and is very proactive in being willing to engage early with clients and very commercial’