Tim Cooper

Addleshaw Goddard

Tim is a Business Support & Restructuring partner at Addleshaw Goddard, based in Edinburgh, working in all aspects of corporate restructuring, asset recovery and insolvency. He has worked throughout his career as a corporate restructuring and insolvency lawyer, and has over 20 years career experience from the North of England and Scotland as a specialist in this area.

Tim has worked on many high profile restructurings and insolvencies, including leading the team advising the liquidators of The Scottish Coal Company, administrators of Hawick Knitwear and of Ferguson Shipbuilders. Other career highlights range from handling Premier League and Championship football club restructurings, retail cases such as Dolcis Shoes, Whittard of Chelsea and Adams Childrenswear, manufacturing such as Silentnight Group, Behar Carpets, insurance mediation businesses such as FirstCity Group, and many others. Tim is also the Chair of R3 in Scotland, R3 Council Member for Scotland and sits on the R3 Scottish Technical Committee.

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Scotland: guide to the appointment of a provisional liquidator

Practice notes

Produced in partnership with Tim Cooper and Emma Widdowson of Addleshaw Goddard LLP and updated by Iain Penman and Andrew Scott of Brodies LLP.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Scotland: insolvency of ordinary partnerships and limited partnerships

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Tim Cooper of Addleshaw Goddard LLP, looks at the insolvency of ordinary partnerships and limited partnerships in Scotland. It considers how a Scottish partnership can apply for its own sequestration, how creditors can petition for sequestration and other differences for Scottish Partnerships.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Scotland: members’ voluntary liquidation

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Tim Cooper of Addleshaw Goddard LLP and Eileen Maclean of Insolvency Support Services Limited, looks at members’ voluntary liquidations (MVLs) in Scotland including The Insolvency (Scotland) (Receivership and Winding up) Rules 2018.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Scotland: process to enter creditors’ voluntary liquidation (CVL)

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Tim Cooper of Addleshaw Goddard LLP, David Menzies of ICAS and Louise Laing of Brodies LLP, looks at the process to enter creditors’ voluntary liquidation (CVL) of a company registered in Scotland and the appointment of a liquidator by creditors.

Restructuring & Insolvency