Sarah Teal is a partner in the Corporate Restructuring and Advisory team.

Sarah represents banks, asset based lenders and other financiers, restructuring and turnaround professionals, directors and management teams, and advises on all issues arising in financially stressed situations.

Sarah regularly advises boards on directors' duties in the context of doubtful solvency and has been involved in a number of large scale confidential restructurings (particularly in the retail and healthcare sectors).

Sarah also has substantial contentious experience including antecedents transactions, wrongful trading and misfeasance actions which have resulted in a number of reported cases.

Sarah has worked on a number of high profile assignments, including -the Joules administration, the Debenhams CVA challenge, Rococo chocolates, Oddbins, Burdens, Monarch Aircraft Engineering, Manchester House, Artisan, American Golf, Mark Wilkinson Furniture, Smallbone, Fresh to Store, Lotus F1 and Barratts.

In addition, Sarah has assisted a number of retailers with CVA's, including Poundstretcher, Jigsaw and Moss Bros.

Sarah is head of Shoosmiths’ Manchester office and is responsible for the firm’s contribution to, and profile within, the local business community.

• COVID-19 Business Support Measures

  By Sarah Teal |June 2020

• What Happens Next if Shopping Centre Landlord Goes Under?

  By Sarah Teal |March 2020

• From Footfall to Clicks - The Experts Talk Retail Risk

  By Sarah Teal |September 2018