Insights

September 22, 2026 — Crowell & Moring represented a group of bondholders in securing the appointment of Michael Leeds and Kristina Kicks of Interpath Limited as joint administrators of William John (HV) PLC. 

London – July 29, 2026 [Updated Aug. 26, 2026]: Crowell & Moring's London Restructuring and Insolvency team has been appointed by Kroll Advisory in the administration of Woodville Consultants Limited (trading as Woodville Litigation Funding), a motor finance litigation funder with an estimated £330m loan book and more than 300,000 claims under its belt. The team first acted for a group of investors in successfully securing a contested administration order from the High Court and has since been retained by Kroll to assist in the wider administration process.

London – October 4, 2023: Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP has been recommended in four practice areas in the Legal 500 United Kingdom 2024. In addition, partner Andrew Knight has been named as a leading individual for asset based lending. The firm’s full rankings can be viewed here.

London—October 13, 2021: Legal 500 has again listed Crowell & Moring as one of the top UK law firms in The Legal 500 UK 2021 for its asset-based lending work.

London – October 9, 2020: Legal 500 has listed Crowell & Moring as one of the top UK law firms in The Legal 500 UK 2021 for its asset based lending work.

London – June 1, 2020: Crowell & Moring’s London Restructuring team, led by partners Paul Muscutt and Cathryn Williams, and included associate Beth Bradley, saw the conclusion of a remote trial, carried out via Skype, in which the team was universally successful in the application to put six companies within the Shepherd Cox Hotels Group into administration. Crowell & Moring clients Simon Bonney and Carl Jackson of Quantuma LLP, have been appointed administrators. This success follows the team’s recent victory relating to the Carlauren Group in November 2019 - a similar investment scheme relating to luxury care homes.

London – November 29, 2019: Crowell & Moring’s London Restructuring team, led by Cathryn Williams and Paul Muscutt, has successfully applied to the Insolvency and Companies Court to put the parent companies of the Carlauren Group into administration.

London – October 9, 2019: Crowell & Moring has been listed among the top UK law firms in The Legal 500 UK 2020 for its work in asset based lending.

London – May 22, 2019: A London-based team of Crowell & Moring lawyers has been working around the clock in recent weeks, advising the senior lenders to British Steel, the U.K.'s second largest steel producer, in their negotiations with British Steel, its ultimate shareholder Greybull Capital, and the British government. British Steel was ordered into compulsory liquidation by the High Court this morning and the Official Receiver has now taken control of the business, with EY appointed as Special Managers. British Steel is among the U.K.'s most high-profile manufacturers, employing about 4,500 people directly and as many as 20,000‎ more in its supply chain. Crowell & Moring advised the syndicate of senior lenders (PNC Business Credit as syndicate agent, ABN AMRO and Secure Trust Bank), initially in connection with an innovatively structured £120-million short-term government bridge loan, making it possible for British Steel to comply with its obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and avoid a significant EU fine. The company still required further funding to help it face a range of challenges confronting the UK and global steel industries, and the Crowell & Moring team continued to serve as counsel to the senior lenders, all asset-based financiers, in ongoing negotiations to provide that funding, including the release of funds by the three asset-based lenders yesterday to finance British Steel’s entire payroll to ensure that its employees were paid in May. The Crowell & Moring team is led by finance partner Andrew Knight, with restructuring partners Cathryn Williams and Paul Muscutt also playing significant roles. Andrew previously acted for the same senior lenders when they financed the acquisition of British Steel by Greybull (from Tata Steel) in 2016, and again last year, when the original asset-based lending facility was restructured to layer in an additional £90 million senior secured FILO facility provided by a U.S. fund.