Paul Muscutt
Overview
An experienced bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer, Paul Muscutt’s practice covers all aspects of contentious and noncontentious insolvency, with specific knowledge of contentious work and focus on the asset-based lending sector. Paul acts for financial institutions, private equity investors, insolvency practitioners, directors, and corporate clients.
Career & Education
- University of Plymouth, LL.B., 1998
- College of Law, Guildford, LPC, 1999
- England and Wales
Paul's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.19.24
In a recent UK Court of Appeal judgment in what is known as “the motor finance cases” (see Johnson v FirstRand Bank, Wrench v FirstRand Bank and Hopcraft v Close Brothers Limited, which appeals were all heard together), the Court has shone a spotlight on the issue of commissions paid by financiers to brokers and determined that, in some cases, they may be considered “bribes” under UK law.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 03.28.24
UK Government Seeks to Loosen Third Party Litigation Funding Regulation
Publication | 03.20.24
Boiler-Plate Constitutions Rarely Fit For Purpose In Financial Failure
Client Alert | 8 min read | 11.28.23
Update on English Litigation Funding Agreements Since PACCAR
Representative Matters
- Secondments to the restructuring teams of large financial institutions.
- Acting for a foreign liquidator in a reported case of cross-border insolvency regulations in relation to a large shipping arbitration dispute.
- Advising financial institutions on the complex restructuring of a leading manufacturer of beds in Europe, Russia, and Asia.
- Advising a bank on the £110 million restructuring of a coal mine.
- Advising a financier on the $1.5 billion restructuring of one of the world’s largest independent steel traders.
- Advising the board of a premier UK football club on potential insolvency issues.
- Representing companies in relation to the restructuring of a £15 million turnover business specializing in flexible office space solutions.
- Acting for bankruptcy trustees in the tracing and recovery of assets following a £16 million fraud.
- Advising a U.S. private equity investment firm on the acquisition of a European airline.
- Representing creditors on a creditors’ committee in the administration of a failed FSA-regulated derivatives broker.
- Representing a company in the trading administration of a theme park and a £35 million investment.
- Representing the administration of an online fashion retailer.
- Acting for the administrators of a global provider of interactive entertainment products in the gaming industry.
- Acting as administrator in the administration of the UK’s largest online retailer of products for home and garden.
- Advising on a cross-border real estate restructuring matter for £150 million.
- Representing a syndicated lender in the restructuring of a leading wholesaler.
Paul's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.19.24
In a recent UK Court of Appeal judgment in what is known as “the motor finance cases” (see Johnson v FirstRand Bank, Wrench v FirstRand Bank and Hopcraft v Close Brothers Limited, which appeals were all heard together), the Court has shone a spotlight on the issue of commissions paid by financiers to brokers and determined that, in some cases, they may be considered “bribes” under UK law.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 03.28.24
UK Government Seeks to Loosen Third Party Litigation Funding Regulation
Publication | 03.20.24
Boiler-Plate Constitutions Rarely Fit For Purpose In Financial Failure
Client Alert | 8 min read | 11.28.23
Update on English Litigation Funding Agreements Since PACCAR
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
Disguised Remuneration Schemes and the Loan Charge
|05.10.19
Crowell & Moring's Restructuring Matters
Retention of title – the unpaid seller v. the asset based lender
|04.09.19
Crowell & Moring's Restructuring Matters
Practices
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Recovery
- Corporate and Transactional
- Commercial Finance and Lending — London Practice
- Commercial Finance and Lending
- Private Equity
- Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency
- Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Insolvency — London Practice
- Financial Services — London Practice
- Financial Services
- Finance and Transactions
Industries
Paul's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.19.24
In a recent UK Court of Appeal judgment in what is known as “the motor finance cases” (see Johnson v FirstRand Bank, Wrench v FirstRand Bank and Hopcraft v Close Brothers Limited, which appeals were all heard together), the Court has shone a spotlight on the issue of commissions paid by financiers to brokers and determined that, in some cases, they may be considered “bribes” under UK law.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 03.28.24
UK Government Seeks to Loosen Third Party Litigation Funding Regulation
Publication | 03.20.24
Boiler-Plate Constitutions Rarely Fit For Purpose In Financial Failure
Client Alert | 8 min read | 11.28.23
Update on English Litigation Funding Agreements Since PACCAR
