Henry Shinners

Director
Restructuring & recovery
T: 020 7131 4339
E: henry.shinners@smith.williamson.co.uk

Henry joined Smith & Williamson in 1992 and qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 1997. In 2001/2, he completed a 16-month secondment to the specialised lending services department of The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC, where he was responsible for managing the bank’s exposure to a portfolio of high-risk customers.

Following his RBS secondment, Henry won first prize in the 2002 Joint Insolvency Examination Board exams and he has been an appointment-taking Insolvency Practitioner since 2003.

With over 20 years of experience, Henry has dealt with many corporate restructuring and insolvencies across a very broad range of industries, with specific expertise in;

• Property (both development and investment)
• Hotels and licensed premises
• Healthcare
• Child nurseries and schools
• Motor dealerships

Henry is currently the joint administrator of a private equity fund of the Kaupthing Bank group, an assignment that has proven to be not only very successful from a creditor perspective but and also extremely interesting and challenging, not to mention legally ground-breaking, for our team.

Henry has many years of experience in working on lender-focused assignments, including those which are financial and/or business review in nature as well as dealing with formal insolvency appointments, including sometimes prolonged administration trading assignments.