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Tim Symes

Tim is an expert in insolvency and asset recovery disputes, helping insolvency office-holders and stake-holders to investigate, fund and launch estate claims leading to asset recoveries. Tim has spent two decades running contentious insolvency litigation and asset recovery cases, encompassing director misfeasance, fraud, antecedent transactions, and claims against third parties. Experience Advising liquidators on £200m foreign exchange fraud across multiple jurisdictions Advising group of prime city real estate landlords in £350m hostile ‘loan to own’ debt buyout and administration application Advising group of non-UK creditors on recovery of £40m of suspected assets concealed in trusts in multiple offshore jurisdictions Advising liquidators on realisation of claim concerning £1bn in bonds Advising a Greek insolvency office-holder of a company with debts of £100m on recognition and asset recovery proceedings in the UK · Stewarts Law LLP

EnglandInsolvency, Asset Recovery

About

Expert in insolvency and asset recovery disputes with two decades' experience advising insolvency office-holders and stakeholders on investigating, funding and launching estate claims to recover assets.

Practice areas

InsolvencyAsset RecoveryCommercial LitigationRestructuringFraud & InvestigationsCross-Border Insolvency

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Expertise

Director misfeasance claimsFraud investigations (including large foreign exchange fraud)Antecedent transactions and claims against third partiesCross-border asset recovery and offshore trust tracingRecovery of bond- and debt-related claimsAdvising creditors and real estate landlords in 'loan to own' scenariosRecognition and asset recovery for foreign insolvency office-holders