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"Theo Anderton leads the practice [London] at Blake Lapthorn and has extensive expertise in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency." (Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2012)
 
Restructuring/Insolvency - London: "Theo Anderton looks well placed to reorganise and lead the team at Blake Lapthorn, following the departure of Nick Oliver. He acts primarily for insolvency practitioners." (Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2011)
 

Theo specialises in contentious insolvency work and technical insolvency advice but also has experience in non-contentious matters.  He advises on both corporate and personal insolvency matters.  Theo acts primarily for insolvency practitioners, directors and creditors.  His work includes technical advice to insolvency practitioners, asset recovery actions, misfeasance and wrongful trading claims, interviews and private examinations, applications for possession and sale, injunctions, applications to annul/rescind and applications relating to the decisions of office-holders and/or for directions in respect of the administration of the insolvent estate.

Prior to joining the firm, Theo spent time at Greenwoods solicitors where he was head of the Commercial Dispute Resolution department and Collyer Bristow in London as an associate in their Insolvency department.  Theo passed his Joint Insolvency Examination Board (JIEB) exams in 2003 and is a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3).