Patrick Cook joins Taylor Wessing as UK Head of Reconstruction & Corporate Recovery
Taylor Wessing is pleased to announce that Patrick Cook will join the firm as head of its UK Reconstruction and Corporate Recovery (RCR) Group in London.
Patrick will join Taylor Wessing in June 2007 from Osborne Clarke. He is highly ranked as an insolvency and restructuring specialist and has more than 20 years' experience including setting up Osborne Clarke's insolvency department in the mid 1980s. He has been recruited to lead Taylor Wessing's drive to develop more bank-led restructuring and corporate recovery work.
Rodney Dukes, head of finance and projects, comments:
"This is an important hire for the firm. Patrick's recruitment marks another important staging post in the development of our finance capability, following Graham Wedlake and Marke Raines joining the firm in 2006. Patrick can play a major role in helping us continue to build our banking client base."
Alison Goldthorp, a partner in the RCR group adds:
"Patrick is joining at a really exciting time for the team which has been involved in several recent high-profile cases, including most notably acting for the administrators of Farepak and advising on the Refco restructuring. His recruitment is a major boost for the team because of his extensive experience in bank-led restructurings and insolvencies. His excellent banking client base and experience in this field is the perfect complement to our existing strengths, most notably our strong relationships with insolvency practitioners and asset-based lenders, and I will continue to lead our European service offering."
Patrick comments:
"I am very excited about the prospect of working with the existing team, as well as the other Taylor Wessing partners who are committed to continuing the strategy of developing Taylor Wessing's RCR Group. It is a wrench to be leaving Osborne Clarke after 24 very happy years, but opportunities like this do not come along more than once in a career and simply cannot be ignored."
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For more information please contact Claire Treacy at Taylor Wessing:
Tel: +44 (0)20 7300 4925
Email: c.treacy@taylorwessing.com
Taylor Wessing's Reconstruction and Corporate Recovery Group is a cross-jurisdictional team of specialists advising on some of the most complex and high-profile restructurings and insolvencies in Europe. The group acts for corporates, directors, lenders, investors and all other forms of stakeholder in businesses which are in or anticipating financial difficulties, and is renowned for its proactive and imaginative approach to finding solutions for its clients.
With members of the team acknowledged in the major legal directories as leaders in their field, the group acts on many of the largest-value restructurings and insolvencies in Europe, but also has significant experience in this field working with small and medium-sized enterprises and personal insolvency. In addition, the group frequently undertakes contentious work relating to insolvencies and corporate recovery situations, and is adept in using alternative dispute resolution techniques where they are appropriate.
Taylor Wessing is a leading law firm providing legal support for commercial organisations doing business in Europe. Based in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, Taylor Wessing provides the full range of legal services to major corporations and growing enterprises. Taylor Wessing boasts a strong reputation in the corporate, finance and real estate sectors alongside in-depth experience across the full range of legal services including intellectual property and technology, tax, litigation & dispute resolution, employment & pensions and private client.
