Peter is a restructuring and insolvency Legal Director at Browne Jacobson, specialising in complex transactional and financial services insolvency work for office-holders, lenders, directors, and creditors.

He has led and supervised national teams on high-profile administration sales involving businesses with hundreds of employees and significant regulatory dimensions, including matters with Competition and Markets Authority involvement and FCA regulated firms. His experience spans a wide range of sectors – from financial services, food manufacturing, retail, and care homes to telecoms infrastructure and aerospace – and regularly involves cross-jurisdictional and regulatory complexity.

Peter manages teams of junior solicitors and trainees across a variety of transaction-related restructuring and insolvency matters. He regularly presents to clients as well as internally on topics relating to restructuring and insolvency.

Specific practice areas

• Special Administrations, particularly around the payment services sectors and banking
• Administration appointments and sales, including pre-pack acquisitions and post-appointment sales
• LPA receiverships and property sales
• Lender advisory work, including review of floating charges, competing charges, block discounting, and deed of priority arrangements
• Contentious insolvency applications, including rectification of charges, antecedent transactions, and directors' duties
• High-value personal insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings
• Misfeasance, wrongful trading, and preference claims under the Insolvency Act 1986
• Director disqualification proceedings
• Validation Order applications
• Cross-border insolvency and enforcement of bankruptcy petitions

Career progression

Peter has built over a decade of specialist restructuring and insolvency expertise across some of the UK's leading commercial law firms, including Hill Dickinson LLP, and Addleshaw Goddard LLP. Qualifying into insolvency in Manchester, he developed deep experience across administration sales, lender advisory work, contentious insolvency applications, special administrations, and cross-border insolvency — acting for insolvency practitioners, lenders, and creditors across a wide range of sectors. He joined Browne Jacobson as a Legal Director to lead the firm's restructuring and insolvency practice in the North West, bringing with him a strong regional and national network.