Lee is a Partner in the corporate department's restructuring and insolvency team. Lee’s practice covers a broad range of formal and informal corporate restructuring and insolvency matters. He regularly acts for lenders, creditors, insolvency practitioners, corporates and directors. He advises on all types of restructuring situations, accelerated M&A and formal corporate insolvency procedures (administration, liquidation and receivership).
Lee has particular expertise in the retail sector having advised in connection with the administrations of Monsoon Accessorize Limited, Harveys and Bensons for Beds, Cath Kidston, TM Lewin and Bounty. In addition, Lee also has expertise in the peer to peer lending market having been part of the wider team advising the administrators of Lendy Limited (and its associated company Saving Stream Security Holdings Limited) and on the CVA of Wellesley Finance Plc.
Recent experience includes:
- Advising PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, as administrators of Wilko Limited, Wilkinson Hardware Stores Limited and Wilko.com Limited, the well-known high street retailer, on all aspects arising in respect of the administrations of the companies;
- Advising Quantuma Advisory Limited, as liquidators of La Perla Global Management UK Limited, the globally known women’s fashion retailer;
- Advising the sole shareholder and secured creditor of Fitness First in relation to the implementation of the Part 26A Restructuring Plan;
- Advising ICBC and subsequently FRP Advisory Trading LLP, as administrators of the Braintree Retail group of companies being a large retail park situated in Braintree, Essex;
- Advising a client on the proposed scheme of arrangement/restructuring plan in relation to their investment into a Bermudan group of companies with drilling rights in Africa;
- Advising the secured creditor of Superdry in relation to the the implementation of the Part 26A Restructuring Plan;
- Advising Grant Thornton, as administrators of The Crazy Bear Hotel Group, the internationally renowned bespoke hotel group;
- Advising Teneo Financial Advisory Limited, as administrators of SOVA Capital Limited, an investment bank, in respect of the disposition of certain of its assets;
- Advising Teneo Financial Advisory Limited (Guernsey), as administration managers of VTBC Asset Management International Limited, an investment bank, in respect of the disposition of certain of its assets and OFAC/OFSI sanctions;
- Advising PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, as administrators of Flowline Limited, in connection with the disposal of its business and assets and all subsequent matters arising during the administration.
Lee is also a member of the R3 LASER committee. He also spoke at the R3 Restructuring Conference on a panel relating to distressed M&A.