About
With over 20 years of experience, Frank’s expertise comprises handling complex restructuring and insolvency matters by providing commercially focused advice to clients navigating financial distress and developing practical strategies to manage risk, minimise losses and preserve the businesses, where viable. His specialisms also span over helping lenders and investors manage exits from distressed investments while supporting business owners in protecting their interests.
Frank advises lenders, investors, creditors, directors, borrowers and insolvency practitioners across a broad range of sectors, including property, charities, banking and financial services. While his main focus is the UK SME market, some of his recent work has had an international angle to it, with clients in the Middle East, Channel Islands and continental Europe.
Ranked in The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, Frank has been recognised for his pragmatic approach and emphasis on achieving commercially effective outcomes for clients. He is a member of R3, the UK’s turnaround and insolvency trade association, and the Turnaround Management Association.
- Led the team advising the board of a group of UK-based language schools on their directors’ duties while addressing events that had caused the group financial distress (the impact of the introduction of VAT on school fees and the US government reducing the availability of student visas for students attending its US partner institutions).
- Advising the board of John Florence Limited (a children’s orthotic manufacturer) on its options in financial distress. Leading the appointment of administrators, providing advice on a trading administration and acting on a subsequent sale by its administrators to a competitor.
- Advising the charity trustees of a charity providing training courses to school leaders under DfE contract on conducting an orderly closure. Advising on termination of contracts with the DfE, the position as regards the charity’s pension scheme, and assisting with tactics and planning.
- Assisting the board of directors of a group of nine tech companies employing 100 people across the UK and Poland following a failed sale of its shares and a winding up petition being presented against it.
- Assisting a Dubai-based fund with enforcement of security over a prestigious residential development block of flats in London where the client (senior lender) and the junior lender had fallen out, and the borrower was in default.
- Advising a Guernsey-based lender to a Jersey trust with a guarantee from a BVI company that owned substantial property in London.
- Advising the liquidators of a Liberian company that held property in the UK and was wound up as a foreign company trading in the UK.
- Advising the trustees in bankruptcy (FRP Advisory) of a multi-millionaire property developer who appeared on Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire and assisting with complex divorce proceedings, the bankrupt was midway through.
England and Wales
Testimonials
Location
Southampton, UK
Areas of Focus
Education
Languages
- English
