Cathryn Williams
Overview
Cathryn Williams is a restructuring partner in Crowell & Moring's London office. Cathryn has spent many years in the restructuring and insolvency space, with particular experience in the asset-based lending sector. Her clients include banks, financiers, insolvency practitioners, officeholders, corporations, boards of directors, and distressed lenders in all aspects of noncontentious and contentious insolvency, restructuring, fraud, and asset recoveries.
Career & Education
- University of Reading, LL.B., 1989
- College of Law, Guildford, Law Society Finals, 1990
- England and Wales
Cathryn's Insights
Publication | 03.20.24
Boiler-Plate Constitutions Rarely Fit For Purpose In Financial Failure
Firm News | 2 min read | 10.04.23
Legal 500 UK Recommends Crowell & Moring in Four Practice Areas
Press Coverage | 02.14.23
Press Coverage | 01.16.23
Hospitality Sector Pleads For Help When Covid Business Interruption Loans Fall Due In Spring
Representative Matters
- Acting in the administration and sale of an iconic high street clothing manufacturer and retailer.
- Acting in the highly contested administration applications in a care home group of over 40 companies; acting for the administrators and liquidators of those companies in realizing 25 properties.
- Acting for a lender in a significant and lengthy restructuring of an international waste-to-energy and clean hydrogen-producing group.
- Acted for the financier of a national transport and logistics group, including advising on licensing issues and applying for administration orders in relation to each group company.
- Acted for the purchaser of legal services from the administrator of a legal services provider.
- Acted in the administration and sale of a variety of high street retailers operating throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malaysia, and Eastern Europe.
- Acted for the lender in the sale of the debt and underlying security of a large international retailer to a distressed investor.
- Advising the boards of private companies and public limited companies on insolvency and restructuring issues.
- Dealing with preference, undervalue, and misfeasance as well as wrongful and fraudulent trading actions on behalf of officeholders.
Cathryn's Insights
Publication | 03.20.24
Boiler-Plate Constitutions Rarely Fit For Purpose In Financial Failure
Firm News | 2 min read | 10.04.23
Legal 500 UK Recommends Crowell & Moring in Four Practice Areas
Press Coverage | 02.14.23
Press Coverage | 01.16.23
Hospitality Sector Pleads For Help When Covid Business Interruption Loans Fall Due In Spring
Insights
Scam Investment Schemes: All That Glitters Should Not Be Sold
|08.01.20
ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Magazine, Issue 2
Foreign Debtors and Chapter 11 – Seeking Relief from Turbulent Skies
|02.15.22
Crowell & Moring’s Restructuring Matters
The Return of Crown Preference – Another blow for Floating Charge Holders
|09.21.20
Crowell & Moring’s Restructuring Matters
All change – wide-ranging reforms to UK Insolvency Law
|07.13.20
Crowell & Moring’s Restructuring Matters
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act: The Moratorium and just how “super” is Super Priority?
|07.13.20
Crowell & Moring’s Restructuring Matters
Restructuring Capabilities to Combat the Impact of COVID-19
|04.02.20
Crowell & Moring’s Restructuring Matters
Breathing space for individuals facing debt issues
|06.24.19
Crowell & Moring's Restructuring Matters
E-filing of administration appointments – don’t get your wires crossed
|04.16.19
Crowell & Moring's Restructuring Matters
Call for Views on the Quality and Effectiveness of Audit
|04.15.19
Crowell & Moring's Restructuring Matters
Practices
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Commercial Finance and Lending — London Practice
- Corporate and Transactional
- Commercial Finance and Lending
- Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Insolvency — London Practice
- Financial Services — London Practice
- Financial Services
- Financial Services Litigation and Disputes
- Finance and Transactions
Cathryn's Insights
Publication | 03.20.24
Boiler-Plate Constitutions Rarely Fit For Purpose In Financial Failure
Firm News | 2 min read | 10.04.23
Legal 500 UK Recommends Crowell & Moring in Four Practice Areas
Press Coverage | 02.14.23
Press Coverage | 01.16.23
Hospitality Sector Pleads For Help When Covid Business Interruption Loans Fall Due In Spring