Paul Stanley
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
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Paul is a Managing Partner based in our Manchester office. He specialises in corporate insolvency and business restructuring, with extensive experience handling high profile and complex cases in the sport sector. He is an approved panel member for most major UK clearing banks, he is regularly instructed by the Charity Commission, and he undertakes assignments for the Crown Prosecution Service relating to proceeds of crime. He also serves on BTG’s management, technical and risk committees.
Paul has over 40 years of experience navigating businesses through financial distress and delivering effective solutions involving property receiverships, complex wind downs and restructurings. He is a distinguished figure in the corporate insolvency and restructuring community and has served on several prominent cases.
He acted as Administrator of Wigan Athletic AFC, successfully safeguarding the club’s future by trading the business for nine months with minimal income during the Covid-19 pandemic, while securing a suitable buyer. He was also appointed administrator of Sheffield Wednesday FC.
Paul’s receivership experience spans administrative receiverships, Law of Property Act (LPA) fixed-charge receiverships, Proceeds of Crime Act appointments, and court-appointed receiverships.
Notably, he acted on a complex LPA/court hybrid appointment involving eight banking institutions over a chain of hotels. This hostile appointment required him to control and operate three hotels while resolving intricate title and security issues. Through strategic management and negotiation, he successfully stabilised operations and achieved a £16 million asset sale. Paul is a Chartered Accountant and a licensed Insolvency Practitioner.
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