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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Manufacturer bought out of administration following accelerated mergers and acquisitions (AMA) process
Leicestershire-based manufacturer of bespoke timber windows and doors, Benlowe Group Limited, has been bought out of administration by DorWins Joinery Ltd, preserving the business and the jobs of 56 employees.
BTG acquires the business recovery practice of South West firm Lameys
BTG has further enhanced its restructuring support for businesses across the South West of England with the acquisition of the business recovery and insolvency team from Lameys Accountants.
Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Limited (in Administration) completion of sale to Arise Capital Partners LLC
The Joint Administrators of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Limited are pleased to confirm the successful completion of the sale of the Club to Arise Capital Partners LLC, a consortium led by David Storch, alongside Michael Storch and Tom Costin.
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