Expertise

Tim has over two decades of experience as a contentious insolvency and asset recovery specialist. Tim takes on complex, high value mandates frequently spanning jurisdictions to recover assets for insolvent estates and stakeholders. He focuses on disputes including director misfeasance, fraud, antecedent transactions, as well as professional and bank negligence claims where they have caused loss to insolvent companies.

Tim is cited in Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as ‘commercially astute’ and a ‘very experienced insolvency litigator and quality advisor’.

Recognition

The Legal 500 has described Tim as “a superb litigator” able to offer “outside the box thinking for innovative approaches to claims.”, as well as “…a very capable and efficient lawyer.”

Chambers and Partners says Tim provides “excellent and very thorough advice” and “an excellent rate of case progression.”

Experience

• Advising liquidators on £200m foreign exchange fraud across multiple jurisdictions
• Advising group of prime city real estate landlords in £350m hostile ‘loan to own’ debt buyout and administration application
• Advising group of non-UK creditors on recovery of £40m of suspected assets concealed in trusts in multiple offshore jurisdictions
• Advising liquidators on realisation of claim concerning £1bn in bonds
• Advising a Greek insolvency office-holder of a company with debts of £100m on recognition and asset recovery proceedings in the UK

Career

On qualifying in 2002, Tim joined BDB Pitmans. Tim went on to found the Restructuring and Insolvency Group at DMH Stallard to establish the firm as a leading insolvency practice. Tim joined Stewarts in September 2020.

Publications and media

Tim has frequently been quoted in national media publications, including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian. as well as appearing on Sky News. Tim has published many articles, which include the following:

• Liability of directors for ESG breaches
• Fraud and recessions are natural bedfellows
• Claims in a post-pandemic litigation landscape

Accreditations and memberships

• R3
• INSOL International
• City of London Law Society Insolvency Committee

Personal

Tim and his partner have two beautiful daughters and a dog called Fred. Tim holds a private pilot’s license and likes to get up in the air when he can; he is also a pretty good windsurfer.