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Louise Snipe

Louise is a senior associate in the Corporate Restructuring and Advisory team in the Shoosmiths' Birmingham office. Louise advises on all aspects of insolvency and restructuring and her clients include insolvency practitioners, banks, companies and creditors. Louise's experience includes advising on company voluntary arrangements, acting both buyer and seller side in business sales out of administration and advising banks in connection with their security documentation. Louise has advised on a number of retail CVAs including Mucho Mas Ltd T/A Chilango, Elvetham Limited T/A Abokado, Thomas Sabo UK Limited and Polpo Limited. Louise has also assisted with a number of high profile administrations including Oddbins, and ASA Resource Group PLC. In addition to non-contentious work, Louise also advises on contentious matters. Her most recent notable success includes successfully defending an appeal against an order for the repayment of sums held to be preference payments pursuant to Section 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986. · Shoosmiths LLP

EnglandRestructuring & Insolvency, Corporate / M&A

About

Senior associate in Shoosmiths' Corporate Restructuring and Advisory team in Birmingham, advising on all aspects of insolvency and restructuring for insolvency practitioners, banks, companies and creditors. Experience includes advising on CVAs (including retail CVAs for Chilango, Abokado, Thomas Sabo UK and Polpo), administrations (including Oddbins and ASA Resource Group PLC), business sales out of administration, bank security documentation and defending preference claims under section 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986; she joined Shoosmiths in 2017 after completing a training contract at HCB Solicitors.

Practice areas

Restructuring & InsolvencyCorporate / M&ABanking & FinanceLitigation

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Expertise

Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs)Administrations and business sales out of administrationBank security documentationPreference claims (Section 239 Insolvency Act 1986) defenceAdvising insolvency practitioners, banks, companies and creditors