Chris Jones

Expertise

Chris has over 25 years’ experience in dealing with the issues resulting from financial distress in business — restructuring, corporate recovery, insolvency and related work. He is a positive influence in a crisis and a true trusted advisor to clients.

Chris is rated in the legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers as a ‘great resource for complex aspects of insolvency law’ and considered to be ‘tenacious and thorough in his approach’ as well as ‘extremely approachable, calm and very pragmatic’.

Chris Advises

• Companies and their directors, professional services firms and their members in restructurings, financial turnaround, business sales and purchases as well as litigation in distressed and insolvent scenarios
• Insolvency practitioners in the realisation of corporate assets through sales transactions
• Insolvency practitioners in the investigation of corporate fraud   and ensuing recovery litigation
• Creditors in the recovery of debts and enforcement of security rights
• Financial affairs of insolvent (former) high net worth individuals and deceased individuals.

Experience Highlights

Reported Cases

• Doorbar v Alltime Securities Ltd (1995) BCC 1149 (CA): Court of Appeal, chairman’s valuation of prospective/contingent claims in an Individual Voluntary Arrangement;
• TSB Bank plc v Marshall & Rodgers [1998] 2 FLR 769: first reported case on enforcement of equitable mortgage under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996;
• Fennell v Halliwells LLP [2013] EWHC 2837 (Ch): exercise of Court’s discretion to allow proceedings to be issued against a firm in liquidation to determine a former member’s rights.

Notable Expertise

• Insolvent Deceased Estates: acted on numerous petitions and estates and lectured for R3.

Publications

Articles

• Hiding in the Shadows
• New Legislation on Company Directors

Webinars

• Five Ways to Structure Your Business for the Year Ahead

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Irwin Mitchell, 2002–13, Partner in Leeds and Manchester, setting up Corporate Recovery and Insolvency department in Manchester
• Hammonds: Associate, 2000–02
• Eversheds: Associate, 1998–2000
• Adams & Remer: Solicitor, 1995–98
• Isadore Goldman: Solicitor, 1992–95

Education

• University of Reading, Law, LLB Hons (2.1)
• College of Law, Guildford
• Eastbourne College