Gateley Legal boosts its restructuring advisory team with lateral hire

We have strengthened our restructuring advisory team with the appointment of partner Alexander Wood.

Alexander joins the London office from BDB Pitmans where he was a partner in the restructuring and insolvency unit for four and a half years. 

With over 22 years of restructuring and insolvency experience in the City, as well as across the South of England, Alexander advises lenders, borrowers, insolvency practitioners, and other stakeholders of distressed businesses on all areas of corporate recovery and restructuring. This includes advising on both cross-border and domestic transactions and contentious insolvency matters, exit strategies, restructurings, enforcement options, administrations, receiverships, liquidations, and company voluntary arrangements (CVAs). He also has client-side experience from the completion of two banking secondments at Barclays and The Royal Bank of Scotland, including time spent in Spain. 

Gateley Legal’s restructuring advisory team is one of the largest in the country, with bases in all regions, including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Reading, and Guildford. The team offers a full range of restructuring services to clients across banking, investment, private equity, sureties, and insolvency practice.

Alexander’s appointment comes at an exciting time for our London office. In July 2024, our London office welcomed three new partners: Marcus Wright in real estate, Shaz Sharif in specialist residential development, and Bernhard Gilbey in corporate tax. These new appointments, in addition to Alexander, takes the total number of partners in London to 30 across all areas of our legal practice.