Euan is former President of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and a member of the International Insolvency Institute. He has regularly spoken at industry events and writes on insolvency matters.
Euan joined Linklaters as a trainee and qualified in 1997. In 2006, Euan was elected as a Partner.
With some 25 years’ experience, Euan is one of the UK’s foremost insolvency specialists and leads Linklaters’ contentious restructuring and insolvency practice.
His practice covers contentious and advisory insolvency and restructuring, banking disputes and fraud and regulatory investigations. He has particular experience advising banks, financial institutions, companies and insolvency practitioners in relation to contentious issues arising from complex restructuring, insolvency and corporate distress situations, especially those with a cross-border element.
Euan is one of the core group of partners who has been advising the administrators of the Lehman Brothers companies in the UK since day one. Other significant cases include Bulb, Toys r Us, Enron, HMV, Woolworths, MG Rover, Game, Petroplus, Parmalat, Beaufort Securities, MF Global and IBRC (Anglo Irish Bank).
Euan is the Senior Board Member on the firm’s Partnership Board and has previously served as the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion partner and vice-chair of the Partnership Election Committee. He is also a past-President of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association.
Euan has acted on many of the most complex and high-profile restructuring and insolvency cases of the last 20 years. These include:
Euan graduated with honours in Law from the University of Nottingham and completed a Legal Practice course with distinction from Nottingham Law School. As part of his law degree, he studied for a year at the University of Texas School of Law.
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