Cathryn Williams

Cathryn has deep experience in all aspects of noncontentious and contentious restructuring, formal insolvencies, insolvent business sales and purchases, cross-border complex fraud and asset recovery, and insolvency litigation. She has dealt with businesses in a wide variety of sectors, including manufacturing, technology, construction, food and beverage, law firms, and film and television production. Cathryn has targeted experience in retail insolvency, having dealt with the failure of several well-known high street retailers.  

Cathryn and the team are particularly recognised for their proficiency in dealing with Ponzi and failed investment schemes, including loan note schemes, bond schemes, fractional ownership schemes, and unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS). The team reacts quickly in such matters to maximise recoveries, including promptly obtaining worldwide freezing orders to preserve assets, conducting cross-border asset tracing, and obtaining recovery actions against the bad actors and recipients of funds from such fraudulent schemes.

Cathryn is recommended in The Legal 500 UK for her knowledge of asset-based lending in an insolvency context. She was a Council Member of the Association for Business Recovery Professionals (R3), the trade association for insolvency and restructuring professionals, for many years, and also served as co-chair of R3’s Education, Conferences and Courses Committee.