Blake Lapthorn boosts Insolvency and
Business Recovery team with partner hire
Blake Lapthorn is pleased to announce the appointment of Adrian
Owen as a partner in its Insolvency and Business Recovery team.
Based in the firm's Southampton office, Adrian will be responsible
for assisting the team in further developing its client base and
complementing its leading south coast insolvency and business
recovery practice by building on the firm's existing capabilities
with a particular emphasis upon its work with banks and asset based
lenders.
Adrian joins Blake Lapthorn from Lamb Brooks where he was head
of the firm's Business Restructuring and Insolvency team. Prior to
that, he was the partner responsible for developing the regional
insolvency and restructuring practice at Bond Pearce in the South
East. In an insolvency career that has spanned almost 20 years
since he qualified with what is now City firm Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer Adrian has worked on a range of major insolvency
assignments from managing a restructuring project in the Far East
to heading up the Treasury Solicitor's Companies and Regulation
team responsible for public interest winding up and directors'
disqualification.
Adrian passed the JIEB exams in 1996 and retains his insolvency
practitioner licence. He is a Fellow of the Association of Business
Recovery Professionals (R3) and a member of the Insolvency Lawyers’
Association. Adrian lectures frequently and is a contributor to
Tolley’s Insolvency Law and Lightman & Moss on the Law of
Administrators and Receivers of Companies, as well as other
specialist publications.
Comments Adrian: "Blake Lapthorn is a leading firm in many
different areas of law and I am delighted to be joining its
Insolvency and Business Recovery team as it looks to expand this
area of its business. The team has been involved in some of the
largest and most interesting cases and I very much look forward to
helping the team progress further."
Blake Lapthorn's core Insolvency and Business Recovery team
comprises five
partners and 16 full-time business recovery lawyers, based in
the firm's offices in London, Southampton and Oxford. The team is
one of the largest of its kind in the country, bringing together
solicitors skilled in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring and
business recovery work. Blake Lapthorn was one of only two firms to
be rated in the top tier for restructuring and insolvency in the
South in Chambers
UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession
2010, described as having "top-flight expertise"
and demonstrating a "consistently excellent profile". In the same
publication, appreciative clients are reported as saying that
Adrian "is very quick to respond and always produces top-quality
work."
Nick Oliver, partner at Blake Lapthorn and head
of the Insolvency and Business Recovery team, said: "Adrian brings
with him a wealth of specialist expertise. His appointment reflects
the team's ambitions for growth in Southampton, where he will work
alongside regional team leader Mike
Pavitt. His appointment is also part of the firm's strategy for
developing the corporate recovery and advisory offering to the
firm's asset based lending and
banking clients."
Adrian joins Blake Lapthorn on Tuesday 1 December 2009.
