Alison Goldthorp - Partner, Charles Russell Speechlys

Alison is a senior insolvency and restructuring partner with over 30 years’ of experience in advising insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, directors, corporates, shareholders and other stakeholders dealing with financial difficulties.  She advises on contentious and non-contentious matters and has extensive experience of resolving disputes by mediation.

Alison advises across all sectors. Her recent experience includes advising the administrators of the Insect Technology Group in relation to four trading administrations. This involved advice on a restructuring in tandem with a sales process across a number of different jurisdictions including Belgium, the Netherlands, Singapore, India and the USA.

She has advised boards of directors on a number of confidential restructurings since the new measures introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA) were introduced in order to achieve consensual restructurings.

She has also been advising the administrators of a number of serviced office providers in relation to the restructuring of their businesses and lease obligations.

Alison is well connected in the restructuring and insolvency market and is regularly invited to speak on current topics of interest. She is also the co-chair of the R3 Back to Business UK campaign, which has sought to persuade directors of the benefits of taking early advice on restructuring options to secure the best prospects for rescue of the business as a going concern.

Alison Goldthorp is admitted to practice in England & Wales