Michael Frawley – Partner
Carmelite
50 Victoria Embankment, Blackfriars
London EC4Y 0DX, United Kingdom
DX 41 London
Our London office is moving to a brand new home!
From Monday 17 November 2008 we will be relocating to:
5 New Street Square
London
EC4A 3TW
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Managing Partner (UK)
Michael was appointed Managing Partner of Taylor Wessing UK on 1 October 2004. Prior to that, he was Head of both the Litigation & Dispute Resolution department and the Reconstruction & Corporate Recovery group where he specialised in advising financial institutions, companies, insolvency practitioners, directors and shareholders on banking and insolvency issues and the restructuring of companies.
Described as "the talented Michael Frawley" [Legal 500], Michael was named as a leading individual for Insolvency and Corporate Recovery; and Banking Litigation in both the Legal 500 and Chambers; and was included in The Lawyer's Hot 100, prior to his appointment as Managing Partner in 2004.
Recent transactions include:
- advising US clients on the restructuring and the winding down of UK and European subsidiaries;
- restructuring the non performing subsidiaries of pan European group; advised the administrators of Reliant Motors Limited;
- advised on the recovery of loans and/or investments to dot.coms (eg, Boo.Com);
- Internet and telecom companies (eg, Isle of Wight) and sports clubs (eg, Crystal Palace); and
- successfully defended Firesa against a claim by Libra Bank in relation to Ecuadorian Government Debt.
Michael was educated at Otago University, New Zealand [LLB, LLM] (1983/1985) and was admitted as barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1984. He qualified as a solicitor in the UK in 1990 and became a partner with Taylor Wessing in 1992.