Lindsey has the role of Counsel within our Corporate team, specialising in restructuring and insolvency and distressed M&A.

She has acted for insolvency practitioners, secured and unsecured creditors and companies on a significant number of complex and high-profile insolvencies in Northern Ireland. Lindsey also routinely advises lenders in relation to security enforcement and debt restructuring matters and provides pre-insolvency advice to directors and stakeholders faced with distress.

Lindsey’s practice also extends to general corporate matters, including M&A, disposals and intra-group reorganisations.

Lindsey completed her training contract with one of Northern Ireland’s largest commercial firms and qualified as a solicitor in 2008. She subsequently practised as a senior associate in the restructuring teams of both a leading Irish law firm and a Magic Circle law firm.

Lindsey is dual qualified to practice in Northern Ireland and England and Wales.

• Advising the joint supervisors of the first scheme of arrangement in Northern Ireland and the subsequent wind down of a substantial loan book.

• Advising the administrator of a fitout company in relation to the sale of the company’s business and assets, saving circa 100 jobs.

• Advising the joint administrators of a group of companies in relation to the sale of 13 trading pubs in Northern Ireland.

• Advising the purchaser of CDS (Superstores International) Limited (the company behind The Range and Wilko retailers) in relation to the Northern Irish aspects of the pre-pack administration purchase of Homebase’s brand name, intellectual property and NI stores.