Simon Beale is senior counsel with Macfarlanes. He is a senior counsel in the Restructuring and Insolvency practice. Beale has more than 26 years’ experience of advising on insolvency, restructuring and recovery issues. He acts for troubled companies and their directors and shareholders, for individuals in financial difficulty, and for the major financial creditors of such entities or individuals. His clients also include distressed debt investors, insolvency officeholders and a variety of other parties with an interest, or potential interest, in a troubled company’s business.