Robert Paterson

Partner, Wedlake Bell

Robert Paterson, Partner and solicitor, joined Moon Beever LLP in 2018 and is a Licenced Insolvency Practitioner, member of R3, the IPA and the Association of Property and Fixed Charge Receivers, and Institute for Turnaround.

Robert has gained a wide range of experience in his previous firms DLA and Gowlings WLG and has acted on contentious and non-contentious matters for a range of clients including banks and lenders, insolvency practitioners and companies/partnerships and directors/partners.

Robert also undertakes significant cross-border insolvency work. Recent highlights include obtaining the first English administration order for a Gibraltar company in the context of a group restructuring, and obtaining a novel court order permitting the transfer of funds to administrators of secondary proceedings in Germany to enable a distribution to local creditors.

He is currently acting as an expert witness in relation to an ongoing arbitration in New York.

Contributed to

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Guide and script for holding standard creditor meetings in corporate insolvency

Precedents

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Robert Paterson of Wedlake Bell and Nick O’Reilly of MHA, is a standard script for office-holders for holding creditors’ meetings. This script is generic and can be amended depending on what the purpose of the meeting is for, but gives some general guidance on how an office-holder would approach a standard meeting.

Restructuring & Insolvency