Ben Peterson

I am a licensed insolvency practitioner with over 25 years' experience in a broad range of restructuring and insolvency work, which includes formal appointments, both trading and non-trading, and have a particular specialism in contentious insolvency assignments. I undertake business solvency and options reviews and contingency planning, working with secured lenders, key stakeholders and directors of financially distressed companies.

I specialise in manufacturing sector assignments, heading up the Business Restructuring team's sector offering for food & drink manufacturing, and primarily operate in the East Midlands and East Anglia regions.

I have dealt with a number of high profile and complex assignments in recent years, including Norton Motorcycles and All Star Leisure, where both achieved a sale of the business, preserving jobs and maximising the return for the creditors of the companies, and have led several insolvency appointments in the manufacturing sector over the past 12 months.

I have been a member of the core team undertaking the Administration of the Estate of J D Hanson (Deceased), taking primary responsibility for controlling and disposing of the extensive property and investment assets which formed a central part of the Estate. The Administration, now nearing its conclusion after nearly ten years work, has been a large and complex assignment involving significant cross border recovery litigation.