Rachel Watson
Associate
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Location
London
Profile
Services
Rachel has over 10 years’ insolvency experience working with a broad range of clients, including insolvency practitioners, litigation funders, boards, and individuals, both in this jurisdiction and overseas.
Rachel has a particular focus on contentious insolvency and is well versed in officeholder claims, asset tracing, and investigations.
Career Highlights
- Advising a US-based lender as to a significant shortfall in their security, in circumstances where bankruptcy petitions had been presented against the borrowers.
- Advising a trustee in bankruptcy whether to admit or reject a £4.2 million proof of debt filed by a liquidator, the debt in question having allegedly arisen as a result of the bankrupt’s misfeasance while in office.
- Advising liquidators of an R&D company that had crowd-funded investment of over £2 million, only for the same to have been dissipated by a director.
- Acting for a litigation financing company in pursuing various antecedent transactions
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