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Lee Ranford

Partner, Head of Restructuring & Insolvency, London

Restructuring & Insolvency

Lee Ranford

Partner, Head of Restructuring & Insolvency, London

Restructuring & Insolvency

About Lee

Lee is a dual qualified solicitor and insolvency practitioner, specialising in personal and corporate insolvency ranging from bankruptcy through to administration and liquidation.

He acts for a wide range of clients, predominantly insolvency practitioners, as well as company directors, lenders, investors, creditors and debtors.

Lee deals with contentious and non-contentious insolvency, with a particular focus on insolvency disputes.

Recent experience

  • Acting for Joint Administrators of a Company involved in providing military equipment to various foreign Governments, including a $120 million contract and advising on disputes arising thereunder.
  • Acting for Joint Trustees in Bankruptcy in dealing with a complex bankruptcy estate with assets in numerous offshore jurisdictions, and where the bankrupt is subject to a multi-million freezing order.
  • Acting for Joint Liquidators in a £20 million claim by them against multiple defendants, including successfully resisting a jurisdictional challenge by some of them.

Professional Memberships

  • Insolvency Practitioners Association
  • R3 (Association of Business Recovery Professionals)

Career Experience

2026 to present: Partner & HoD, Winckworth Sherwood LLP

2024 - 2026: Partner, JMW Solicitors LLP

2000 - 2024: Partner, Russell-Cooke

1994 - 1999: Partner, Evill & Coleman

1984 - 1994: Stephen Rimmer & Co