Victoria Portman

Information about the specialist

Victoria.Portman@gateleylegal.com

Practice Areas

Victoria is an expert advisor on both contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters.

She predominantly advises insolvency practitioners (including successor practitioners) and secured lenders on potential and actual claims, although she has experience in all insolvency practice areas.

Victoria is a confident and professional lawyer with a “can do” attitude. She is well regarded by her clients for providing clear and commercial advice delivered through top quality service. She is an experienced litigator, and she gives creative solutions and strategic advice as well as advising on the legal position.

Victoria has wide-ranging experience, and she has had numerous successes in relation to claims arising from tax fraud and tax avoidance, wrongdoing by former insolvency practitioners and former directors, against third parties to recover money, property or assets belonging to insolvent estates both in the context of bringing and defending such actions.

She also recently co-authored two articles in Corporate Rescue and Insolvency: “Insolvent estates of deceased persons: life lessons” (2021) 5 CRI 156 and “Unauthorised collective investment schemes” reform needed (2021) 6 CRI 199.