Location: / London
Team: / Commercial Services Group/Corporate Recovery & Insolvency Team
Responsible to: / James Forsyth - Partner
Company Information:
- Managing Partner: David Pester
- Location: Bristol, London, Piraeus
- Headcount: 65 partners, over 350 lawyers and approx 650 staff
- Turnover: forecast £40 million
- TLT was created in 2000, following the merger of Lawrence Tucketts and Trumps. In 2005, TLT acquired niche firm Lawrence Jones and expanded into London
- In June 2007 TLT acquired international commercial firm Constant & Constant,
- Leading strengths are in Financial Services, Leisure, Retail, Technology and Media and Built Environment
- TLT supports the community:
- We provide ‘pro bono’ legal advice to a variety of charities
- TLT staff are encouraged to volunteer other support in the community through our “Giving in Kind” scheme
- A recent environmental audit rated TLT above the 'Best Practice' benchmark for carbon emissions - TLT belongs to European Law Firm (ELF) and International Practice Group (IPG), two international networks that enable us to provide high quality and good value legal services throughout Europe and the world.
- Around two thirds of our work comes from outside the Southwest region
Awards: - 2004: Legal Business - UK Regional Law Firm of the Year
- 2004: Managing Partners Forum - Best Management of Working Capital
- 2005: Sunday Times - 100 Best Companies to Work For
- 2007: British Legal Awards - shortlisted for Regional Law Firm of the Year
- The Sunday Times writes "In many ways TLT is a dream company… Businesses with the best ideas grow fastest, and TLT has shown a strong track record of growth and development." (March 2005)
- Chambers UK, 2007 writes "The firm has carved a niche for itself in the marketplace and has a spring in its step."
- Chambers UK rates 28 of TLT's lawyers as "leaders in their field"
- 2007: Western Daily Press - South West Deals Awards '07 - Corporate Law Firm of the Year.
- 2007: David Pester has been named Managing Partner of the Year in the prestigious 2007 British Legal Awards held in association with Legal Week magazine.
Group/Team Structure:
- TLT has a market leading Corporate Recovery and Insolvency (CRI) Team based primarily in its Bristol office. In October 2006, James Forsyth was recruited from Denton Wilde Sapte to build an insolvency presence in London. This has proved very successful and we want to build further on that success.
TLT's CRI core team draws on experience from partners/solicitors in other disciplines who have experience in dealing with insolvency law and practice.
Current team structure is three partners (Philip May and Peter Carney in Bristol, James Forsyth splitting time between Bristol and London), two Bristol associates, three Bristol assistants (from September 2009) a Bristol trainee and a part time consultant (London). Banking support work for the team is undertaken in London.
We have a full-service insolvency and turnaround practice. Principal work providers are banks (Barclays, Lloyds TSB, Bank Of Ireland, AIB) all the major firms of insolvency practitioners in London and Bristol, the Insolvency Service and other clients of the firm.
2009/10 budget for the core insolvency teams is £1.3m although we generate significant amounts of work for other departments, notably real estate and banking. The partners in the team are all leaders in their field in Chambers 2009.
We win business by our presence on the relevant bank panels, relationships with banks and insolvency practitioners, reciprocity, reputation and service delivery.
The Role:
This is an excellent opportunity to help build on the firm's relatively new insolvency base in London. The candidate will be required to build on the firm's established strong relationships with the Barclays Business Support team at Canary Wharf and look to capitalise on our recent appointment to the Lloyds TSB business support panel.
The successful candidate will need to be capable of working autonomously although full support will always be available.
The ideal candidate:
Enthusiastic, dynamic and able to recognise the opportunity that this offers, the ideal candidate will need to have excellent academics and experience of undertaking the full range of contentious and non-contentious insolvency work for insolvency practitioners and banks in London. Particular experience will be required in the appointment of and acting for administrators.
Excellent business development skills will be vital together with a good understanding of the London insolvency market and the key players who operate within it.
The candidate will also need to be able to work as a team with the other CRI team members in Bristol.
Our Research shows that our clients and our employees would describe us as: energetic, entrepreneurial driven.
If you would like additional information about this position then please contact Emma Watts/Matt Parker, Recruitment Manager/Officer on 0117 917 7606/7867.
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