Hayley is a Legal Director in Shoosmiths’ London office, co-leading the firm’s contentious insolvency practice within the Corporate Restructuring and Advisory team.

She advises a broad range of stakeholders — including companies, office holders, financial institutions, and creditors — across all insolvency processes, with particular expertise in cross-border and complex contentious insolvency matters.

Hayley has been noted in Legal 500 as “Approachable, commercial and responsive”

Hayley’s contentious matters include:

  • Successfully leading the team on the contentious aspects of the Madagascar Oil Limited Part 26A Restructuring Plan
  • Acting for the directors of Great Annual Savings Company in a heavily contested Part 26A Restructuring Plan
  •  Advising the opposing creditors in the successful challenge to a proposed scheme of arrangement by Sunbird Business Services Limited involving $15m of debt
  • Advising the liquidators of Food Retailer Operations Limited on multi-million-pound antecedent transaction claims
  • Acting for officeholders in misfeasance claims against former directors and associates of failed companies
  • Advising on a range of contentious directions applications, including:
    • The administrators of LBHI2 (Lehman group) on the ranking of circa $8.3bn of subordinated debt
    • The administrators of Lendy Ltd, a failed peer-to-peer lender, on the treatment of complex security structures
    • The administrators of London Scottish Finance Limited on recoveries and potential Consumer Credit issues

Hayley is also an active member of Shoosmiths’ cross-discipline Crypto Working Group, contributing to the firm’s strategic insights on digital assets and insolvency-related crypto issues

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