Samantha joined Davenport Lyons’ Corporate & Personal Recovery Group in January 2004.  She qualified as a solicitor in September 2001 and became an associate in July 2007.

Samantha specialises in contentious insolvency, both corporate and personal. She acts for insolvency practitioners and for companies and individuals on insolvency related issues.

She also undertakes general commercial litigation and has assisted on a number of large-scale fraud actions for corporate clients involving urgent Freezing Orders and Disclosure Orders and the tracing of assets.

Samantha also assists Trevor Sears, UK counsel to IATA, with his travel insolvency cases.

Notable cases which Samantha has assisted in are as follows:

• Acting for the Liquidators of Southern Cross Group plc, a high profile Liquidation reported extensively in the media, on a wide range of issues which included Freezing Orders and proceedings against a number of parties.
• ABTA –v- Nardi relating to a fraud perpetrated by an employee included Freezing and Disclosure Orders and the tracing of assets.
• Acting for various Trustees in a number of high profile bankruptcies including Bruce Grobbelaar, the former Liverpool goalkeeper, and Magenta Devine, the former co-presenter of The Rough Guide. To include the tracing of and realisation of assets both in the UK and abroad.
• Acting for FPLAC LLC (a Delaware Limited Liability Company) in respect of certain debts and securities assigned from Comerica Bank to FPLAC LLC including securities over certain film rights and advising in respect of protecting and realising those securities. This case covers assets and securities both in the UK and USA.
• Lesser –v- Lawrence acting for the Trustee in Bankruptcy. This mattered concerned whether a bankrupt’s rights to a retirement annuity and associated benefits under an annuity contract or personal pension plan vested in their Trustee, and whether payments derived from those rights were required to be the subject of an income payments order.
• Acting for AOL (UK) Limited on a number of debt recovery related matters.