Louise Laing

Solicitor, Brodies LLP

Louise is a Senior Associate in the Restructuring and Insolvency team at Brodies LLP. She has extensive experience in corporate restructuring and insolvency work, having specialised in the area for over 15 years (including a secondment to a financial institution).

Louise has been involved in a number of high-profile formal insolvency appointments and multi-jurisdictional cases. She regularly advises insolvency practitioners on a wide range of insolvency issues in administrations, liquidations and receiverships and has acted for a number of administrators in achieving objective one: rescuing the company as a going concern.

Louise has particular experience of advising banks and other lenders in relation to security enhancement and enforcement and formal insolvency strategies and appointments. She also has experience in relation to loan and security acquisition transactions and enforcement following on therefrom.

Louise also advises corporates and directors in times of financial difficulty and acts for clients requiring advice in relation to the insolvency of third parties.

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Scotland: process to enter creditors’ voluntary liquidation (CVL)

Practice Notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Tim Cooper of Addleshaw Goddard LLP, David Menzies of ICAS and Louise Laing of Brodies LLP, looks at the process to enter creditors’ voluntary liquidation (CVL) of a company registered in Scotland and the appointment of a liquidator by creditors.

Restructuring & Insolvency

How is the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement implemented in UK law, and how does this impact domestic

Q&A

This Brexit Q&A examines the mechanisms used in the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 to implement the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and associated agreements, highlighting the specific and general provisions for implementation and the relevant interpretation provisions.

Public Law

Scotland—does a winding-up order have to be served on the debtor company’s registered office by process

Q&A

This Q&A considers the position in Scotland regarding how a winding-up order has to be served on the debtor company's registered office.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Scotland—does interest continue to accrue on a secured debt following the debtor’s bankruptcy?

Q&A

This Q&A considers the position in Scotland regarding whether interest may be claimed on secured debts in bankruptcy.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Scotland—in a case concerning a creditor’s voluntary liquidation, must the Insolvency Practitioner (IP)

Q&A

This Q&A considers the position in Scotland as to whether failure to notify every creditor of a liquidator’s appointment in a creditors’ voluntary liquidation invalidates their appointment.

Restructuring & Insolvency