Brynn joins Chambers from Dickinson Dees LLP, where she worked in the Corporate Recovery Group, mainly handling cases on behalf of the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills.
Brynn’s experience includes:
- Conducting public interest investigations into alleged unfit conduct of directors of insolvent companies across a broad range of business types
- Working closely with third parties including Insolvency Practitioners, Official Receiver/Public Interest Unit, HMRC, police, HSE, FSA, banks, accountants and factoring services
- Forensic examination of accounts
- Negotiating with defendant directors in respect of Disqualification Undertakings
- Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information requests
- Public Interest Winding Up proceedings and provisional liquidator applications
Brynn’s cases have involved large-scale property development companies, haulage, internet search engine optimisation services, publishing, retail and hospitality. Issues have included land-banking, mortgage fraud and wrongful trading. Brynn has recently assisted in two separate matters involving complex issues arising from the distribution and taxation of a redundancy fund, acting respectively for the liquidator of a scientific research organisation and a large multinational company.
Before a career break, Brynn was based in London and previously worked at the Home Office, where her work included involvement in a competitive tendering exercise for prison education contracts, and drafting service level agreements. Brynn also has experience of legislative drafting having worked at the House of Commons with the Government and Shadow Front Benches on the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill and the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Bill throughout Committee and Report stages. Her earliest practice was largely criminal, and Brynn has also prosecuted for the CPS.
Areas of expertise
Brynn undertakes work across a range of commercial and chancery matters including:
• Directors disqualification
• Insolvency
• Employment
