Claire Lawson

SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Claire is a Senior Associate in Edwin Coe’s Tier 1 Chambers-ranked Restructuring & Insolvency Team.

Her insolvency work covers both contentious and non-contentious advice, involves acting for clients including insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors, SMEs, company directors and individuals. Claire is used to working in a commercial, fast paced environment as part of Edwin Coe’s Restructuring & Insolvency team and enjoys developing and maintaining client relationships. She always strives to provide comprehensive advice which facilitates positive results for clients.

 

Claire also advises clients in respect of various commercial litigation matters including debt claims, corporate and contractual disputes, breaches of trust and unfair prejudice claims.

 

Claire joined Edwin Coe as an Associate in 2019 and became a Senior Associate in 2023.

 

As part of her practice, Claire advises insolvency practitioners and enjoys providing clarity and confidence in commercially sensitive scenarios whilst also focusing on the legal implications of advice provided.

 

Claire also acts for company directors facing claims from office holders providing advice in order to defend claims which could potentially lead to personal liability risks. Claire provides reassurance, clear and practical guidance which takes each directors’ personal circumstances into consideration.

Expertise
Restructuring & Insolvency Misfeasance Compulsory Liquidation Creditors Voluntary Liquidation Members Voluntary Liquidation Winding Up Petitions: Defending an Order Winding Up Petitions: Guidance for Creditors Statutory Demands: Individuals
Credentials
Member of R3 (the Association of Business Recovery Professionals)
Member of IWIRC (The International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation)
EXPERIENCE
Claire’s experience includes:
Acting for a client who required an urgent application for an injunction to prevent the presentation and advertisement of a winding up petition against a company.
Acting for office holders in actions against directors, including claims for misfeasance and wrongful trading.
Acting for office holders in relation to companies which were fraudulent vehicles, formulating claims against directors and connected third parties in order to obtain realisations for the benefit of the creditors.
Acting for potential office holders in the context of a pre-pack administration to include dealing with the Notice of Intention to appoint administrators, the negotiation of the sale of the business and subsequent appointment of administrators.
Acting for trustees in bankruptcy in cases involving non-compliant bankrupts, the disputed ownership of assets, alleged third party interests in assets and antecedent transactions.
Acting for a trustee in bankruptcy in a case during which the bankrupt individual was found to have provided false evidence to the Court: Ravikanth Borra (also known as Ravi Gupta) v The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs [2022] EWHC 1195 (Ch).
Advising directors about their duties to their company and creditors in accordance with the insolvency legislation in order to enable them to protect their businesses or transition into an insolvency process in a compliant manner.
Advising directors in respect of overdrawn loan accounts, contractual claims brought against them by office holders, breaches of their statutory and fiduciary duties to include bounce back loan claims.
Acting for office holders in the context of applications for Validations Orders, to extend administrations, to convert administrations to liquidations and for block transfer applications in respect of appointing a replacement office holder.
Advising the sellers of an oil and gas licence with regard to a £1 million claim against them for an alleged breach of the terms of a Share Purchase Agreement specifically relating to obligations under the SPA to use its best endeavours and meeting certain commercial activity warranties. Settlement was eventually negotiated by the parties during a mediation.
Advising siblings in a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975 against a third sibling. A settlement was reached in favour of our clients providing them with a substantial sum from the estate of their deceased parents.
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