Douglas is a Principal Associate Professional Support Lawyer delivering knowledge management, thought leadership and training to legal teams and clients in relation to Restructuring & Insolvency law and practice.
Douglas is a Principal Associate Professional Support Lawyer in the Restructuring team. He has experience of a wide range of Restructuring & Insolvency work, both corporate and personal, and contentious and non-contentious. He is experienced in all forms of insolvency procedures across a wide range of sectors, including logistics, retail, telecommunications, IT, energy, education, construction, agriculture, pensions, and sport. Many of the matters he has worked on have involved cross-border elements.
In his role as a Professional Support Lawyer, Douglas is adept at keeping legal teams and clients up to date with the latest developments in the Restructuring & Insolvency landscape, through delivering knowledge management, education, and training.
Douglas qualified in 2007 and joined Eversheds Sutherland in 2010, working as a solicitor in its Restructuring group for the next 11 and a half years, before moving to the professional support team in early 2022. He has been recommended by the Legal 500 as being "highly respected in the market".
Latest Insights
- legal updatesEngland and Wales: The High Court considers the meaning of a “genuine and substantial dispute” and a “genuine and serious cross-claim” in the context of a disputed winding-up petition debt
- legal updatesThe High Court confirms that time does not stop running for limitation purposes when a company goes into administration
- legal updatesCorporate disputes – 2024 in review
Douglas is involved in a range of articles, briefings and brochures, with a varied target audience (both internal and external).
Douglas has been recommended by the Legal 500 as being “highly respected in the market”.
Douglas participates in various industry-wide Professional Support Lawyer groups relating to Restructuring & Insolvency.
Douglas graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class degree in Law in 2004 and also spent a year studying abroad at the Université de Poitiers, France from 2002 - 2003.