Dawn Allen
Partner
Dawn focuses on non-contentious restructuring and insolvency engagements and advises a range of stakeholders, predominantly financial institutions as well as accountants, corporate clients and their boards of directors.
Dawn's experience
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Advised Interpath Limited following their appointment over three complex property development and construction companies with advice covering planning, health and safety the sale of numerous residential developments.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Advised a board of directors of a distressed AIM listed law firm on the regulatory aspects of their declining business, while also acting for the proposed administrators to explore sale or other insolvent solutions for the entire legal practice.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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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 FRP Advisory as administrators of R.E. Dickie Limited in relation to the pre-pack sale of the assets of the Company to three individuals in the local community, which included the company's factory premises and plant and machinery. The deal successfully safeguarded the property for use by local businesses going forwards.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Acting for an investment fund on its acquisition of a UK golf club by way of a pre-pack administration purchase from its administrators and successfully securing the future of an established golf club and saving the jobs of all employees.
- United Kingdom
- Sport & Hospitality
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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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Advised Interpath Limited as administrators of Thomas Wright/Thorite Group Limited, a leading UK provider of pneumatics, compressed air, vacuum and fluid-handling products and systems, on a pre-pack administration sale to Fluidpower Group UK Limited, a subsidiary of Flowtech Fluidpower plc, saving the jobs of all 105 employees.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Advising Ernst & Young as proposed administrators of the Ridgewall Group, a cyber security and IT services provider assisting with the pre-pack sale of 5 companies.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
Credentials
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2006Barclays Bank plc, Legal Secondee
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2002Qualified - England and Wales
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1999Leeds Metropolitan University - Legal Practice Course
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1999Joined Pinsent Masons
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1998Leeds Metropolitan University - CPE
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1997Bradford University - BA (Hons) Business with Law
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