Lee De'ath

Lee is a Partner based in our Colchester office. He specialises in corporate insolvency and restructuring, with extensive experience supporting SMEs and owner managed businesses on a wide range of formal and informal assignments, including directors' duties, investigations and strategies to maximise stakeholder returns.

Lee has over 30 years of experience advising directors, creditors, banks and other financiers. His recent assignments include the liquidation of a former brokerage following the discovery of a £1 million director fraud. He led the recovery of majority of the funds, utilising worldwide freezing orders and litigation to secure outcomes for creditors.

He also acted as administrator, and subsequently supervisor, of a railway services company, successfully trading the business through administration before securing creditor approval for a CVA, preserving around 200 jobs. He was also involved in the liquidation of a company that had entered into a complex tax scheme. Following investigations, Lee and his team secured a half a million settlement for creditors.

He is a committee member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) for the East. He is a former member of ICAEW’s (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) insolvency and rescue committee and a former member of the IPA’s (Insolvency Practitioners Association) training and examination committee.

Prior to joining BTG, Lee was a partner at an independent insolvency, restructuring and forensic accounting firm. He is a licensed Insolvency Practitioner.