Faith James
Legal Director
Faith’s practice focuses on transactional, non-contentious restructuring work across diverse sectors. Faith advises funders and insolvency practitioners on restructuring strategies and asset disposals and advises corporates and boards of directors in the management of restructurings with multiple stakeholders.
Faith's experience
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Acting as trustee for Norwegian bondholders of a UK oil and gas group, supporting with consensual negotiations to bond terms and fresh funding, delivering a long term, comprehensive restructuring solution.
- Norway
- Financial Services
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Acting for a leading German container board and corrugated board manufacturer, on its acquisition of the assets of UK packaging business partnership from administrators. We advised on complex negotiations, managing our client's dual role as purchaser and landlord, to secure a smooth, value‑preserving transaction supporting future operations.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Acting for Keys Group in relation to their acquisition of the business and assets of Mable Therapy Limited, a provider of speech and adult language therapies. A fast-paced pre-pack administration was required to complete before further loss of the operational business. The acquisition will compliment and develop the existing Keys Group market profile.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advising a bank on the recovery of realisations from its customer's liquidators where the liquidator had sold the customers property and challenged the categorisation of the Bank's security.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Acting for Grant Thornton as administrators of Protocol National on its sale to AWS Education, funded by Twenty20 Capital. T20 is a global leading investor in workforce businesses and supports AWS' UK education workforce group. The sale secured the future operations of the business, retaining employment for over 60 employees.
- £1.2m
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Advising a specialist agricultural bank, with its proposed refinancing of a farm under a specific agricultural funding scheme, and advising as to its wider contractual relationship with its distributors and growers.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising RSM on its hostile appointment as administrators of Famevalley Limited, a trading pharmacy in North Yorkshire, and negotiation of a sale of the business, including a temporary management agreement, with a third party pharmacy operator.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Providing regulatory advice and distressed transactional support in relation to the highly complex and public decline of the AIM-listed parent company and subsidiary law firm and facilitating a managed wind down of the practice prior to a regulatory intervention.
- United Kingdom
- Professional Services
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Advising RSM as administrators of Silcoms Limited, an established manufacturer of complex aero-engine ring components and assemblies. This was a fast-paced pre-pack administration saving over 80 employee roles and involving option agreements for future sales of property.
- £1m
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Providing directors' duties advice prior to PwC’s appointment as administrators of Rivus Fleet Solutions, a fleet management and service business for light commercial vehicles. Advising on the pre-pack administration sale which safeguarded 165 jobs and secured the delivery of crucial services to the Metropolitan Police Service
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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