William Trower QC
- Contact details:
- 3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.
- Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911.
- LDE338 (Chancery Lane).
- Email williamtrower@southsquare.com.
- Web www.southsquare.com
- Professional memberships:
- 1983: Called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn)
- 2001: Appointed QC
- 2000 to 2011: Member of Insolvency Rules Committee
- 2005 to date: Member of Insolvency Lawyers Association Council
- 2007: Deputy High Court Judge (Chancery Division)
- 2009: Bencher Lincoln’s Inn
- Called to the bars of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong for specific cases
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- Education:
- MA (Oxon)
- Dip Law (City)
- Areas of practice:
- Corporate Insolvency (particular specialism in banking and insurance-related work)
- Company Law
- Banking and Finance
- Currently acting for the administrators of Lehman Brothers and Nortel and has acted in many other high profile insolvencies and reconstructions, such as BCCI (for Abu Dhabi), Polly Peck (for the administrators), Maxwell (for Credit Suisse), Bermuda Fire & Marine (for the Bermudian liquidators), Barings (for directors), Independent Insurance (for the provisional liquidators), TXU (for the administrators), HIH (for the English liquidators), T&N (for the EL Insurers), EMLICO (for GE), SPhinX (for Deutsche Bank) and Metronet (for TfL)
- Extensive advice and representation in relation to financial restructurings in England and worldwide, both with and without the use of schemes of arrangement
- Represented many London market insurers on the formulation and sanction of schemes of arrangement
