Leading Partners

Debt recovery in Yorkshire And The Humber

Clarion

Clarion continues to act for large corporations and SMEs across a range of industries, including the building, property, logistics and manufacturing sectors. Daniel Carlton spearheads the ‘incredibly knowledgeable and proactive‘ team, working closely with a number of major clients, bolstering their own credit control procedures. Charise Marsden has extensive experience with regards to insolvency mandates and assists with major work for clients in the manufacturing sectors.

Responsables de la pratique:

Daniel Carlton


Autres avocats clés:

Charise Marsden


Les références

‘We get an exceptional level of service from the team at Clarion. From the first day they took the time to understand our business, our employees and our clients whom they would be working on. The whole team are incredibly knowledgeable and proactive in chasing our problem debts and have secured payments quickly on our real problem debts.’

‘The level of communication, understanding and experience in the process surrounding problem debt collection is fantastic. Cases are handled in a timely manner, with feedback given and help when decisions need to be taken. It truly feels like the team understands our business and clients.’

‘It is hands down the personal touch we received from Clarion that makes them stand out. Both myself and my team have great relationships with the Clarion team, to the point where we consider them friends as well as colleagues. They have adapted their processes to align with ours and offer us a bespoke service. We have a fantastic relationship with Clarion.’

Principaux clients

Encon Insulation Limited


Bruntwood Investments Limited


Northern Trust Company Limited


Hermes Parcelnet Ltd


Customade Limited


Aggregate Industries Uk Limited


Vink UK Limited


Eyre & Elliston Limited


Oak Tyres Limited


Tunstall Heathcare (UK) Limited


Hurst Plastics Ltd


Principaux dossiers


  • Working with the Aggregate team in the collection of all of its outstanding debts.
  • Supporting Bruntwood in its expansion, offering customers novel solutions to debt problems, including extending contracts, allowing customers to break a lease and downsize, and outstanding debts allowed to be added to the end of the contract term.

DWF

DWF provides a holistic approach to debt collection work; as part of its bespoke offering to clients, the group provides trace and investigatory advice and handles individual debtor profiling, strategic enforcement issues and claims handling assistance. The team acts mainly for creditors, focusing on commercial recoveries of contractual debt. Kevin Feehan heads up the recoveries department, while Jefferson Gledhill has specialist knowledge of fraud and civil recovery work. Ryan Jurgelis-Hinnells is also a key name to note.

Responsables de la pratique:

Kevin Feehan; Jeffersen Gledhill; Ryan Jurgelis-Hinnells


Principaux clients

Adidas (U.K.) Ltd


Asda Stores Ltd


British Telecommunications PLC


Controlaccount Ltd


Co-Operative Group Ltd


DX Network Services Ltd


Fleetcor Europe Ltd


Hire Station Ltd


Information Commissioner’s Office


Marks and Spencer PLC


Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd


Scottish Water Business Stream Ltd


Tesco Stores Ltd


Principaux dossiers


  • Successfully opposed an appeal in relation to a costs order on behalf of a water and waste-water licensed provider.

LCF Law

LCF Law acts for a range of clients, from local SMEs to national PLCs, as well as professionals including accountants and insolvency practitioners. The team’s core work, alongside its debt recovery work, includes advising on credit policies, providing credit assessments and internal credit control processes. Andrew Langton leads the team, which sits within the wider dispute resolution practice, led by Charles Abraham.

Responsables de la pratique:

Charles Abraham


Autres avocats clés:

Andrew Langton


Les références

‘The team is well-resourced and very efficient and effective in dealing with our instructions. Timely updates with the right level of detail.’

‘Both established and new additions to the debt recovery team take a good interest in our instructions and take a business-focused approach to achieve recovery of debts.’

‘LCF are great as a legal partner. The team supported us with everything we asked of them, and we have achieved good results since we began working together. There is good communication and access to a system which allows us to monitor the progress of cases.’

Principaux clients

M.K.M. Building Supplies Limited


Mabey Hire Ltd


Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK Limited


Abacus Express


Adler and Allan


GSF Car Parts Ltd


Principaux dossiers


  • Recovered a full outstanding balance of circa £200,000 against a debtor that resided in the Isle of Man through extensive pre-legal negotiations.
  • Assisting United Gas & Power Ltd with over 300 debts.

Weightmans

Weightmans LLP acts for clients across a range of sectors with a focus on the financial and public sectors. Oliver Nelson specialises in advising insolvency practitioners and has expertise in complex debt recovery work, advising lenders, debtors and creditors. Shauna-Leigh Thompson is recommended for asset finance matters, particularly issues involving vehicles located overseas.

Responsables de la pratique:

Shauna-Leigh Thompson; Oliver Nelson


Les références

‘The team we work with always keeps us fully informed on the progression of cases they are working on on our behalf. They are always available to us for any additional information required by ourselves and respond promptly.’

‘I have always found Weightmans to be very professional and provide regular updates on the cases they are progressing. The team are very approachable and able to provide expertise in their area of work and reply to your emails promptly. By using Weightmans, we have recovered a number of debts that otherwise may have had to be considered for write-off. ’

‘Good clear communications and instructions. The friendly and knowledgeable team are always a pleasure to work with.’

Principaux clients

BMW Financial Services (GB) Ltd


Alpha Labour and Recruitment Ltd


Oyster Risk Solutions Ltd


Leeds City Council


Greene King Retailing Ltd


Dudley Council


A Andrews & Sons (Marbles and Tiles)


DJ & M Heard t/a Heard Properties


Connells Ltd/ Sequence (UK) Ltd


Stevenage Credit Union


NHS Blood & Transplant


KMR Skip Hire Ltd


Massey Bros Ltd


Principaux dossiers


  • Providing debt recovery services to BMW Financial Services (GB) Ltd, recovering monies and assets under a large number of regulated and unregulated credit agreements.
  • Provide Leeds City Council with debt recovery services, mainly focusing on the recovery of business rates, council tax, housing benefits, leasehold charges, and other debt.
  • Provide NHS Blood & Transplant with debt recovery requirements within the UK and worldwide.