executive team
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Philip Holden Executive Chairman
Philip qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and became a licensed insolvency practitioner in 2001. A fellow of the association of business recovery professionals, Philip has extensive experience in high value debt litigation and insolvency actions. He was a partner with a major law firm before moving to become Head of Financial Recovery at Lloyd’s of London and subsequently establishing his own independent business specialising in insurance run-off. Philip leads the strategic development of Drydens.
Contact detailsT +44 (0) 1274 378000
F +44 (0) 1274 378199
E philip.holden@drydenslaw.com
Tamsin Cooper Director of Legal (Litigation)
Tamsin qualified as a solicitor in 1997 with a national law firm. She obtained her Higher Rights of Audience (Civil Courts) in 2001. Tamsin’s expertise includes banking and mortgage litigation, consumer credit, professional negligence litigation, breach of contract claims and sale of goods disputes. Tamsin is responsible within the firm for regulatory compliance and leads our strategic client relationship programme supervising all CRM related activities.
Contact details
T +44 (0) 1274 378008
F +44 (0) 1274 378199
E tamsin.cooper@drydenslaw.com
Sarah Meredith Director of Legal (Technical)
Sarah leads the technical litigation team and has considerable experience in banking litigation and dispute resolution. She has advised numerous financial institutions on a range of contentious issues including share litigation, secured and unsecured recoveries, delivery up, operational loss, operational fraud, title rectification, mortgage fraud, professional negligence against solicitors and valuers and complex defended possession claims. As well as managing the technical litigation team, she also handles her own caseload of more complex cases.
Contact detailsT +44 (0) 1274 378003
F +44 (0) 1274 378199
E sarah.meredith@drydenslaw.com
Philip Harling Director of Legal (Property)
Philip was formerly a partner in a national law firm where he was head of the firm's Leeds property department for a number of years. He has a wealth of experience in advising developers, landlords and lenders on all aspects of property law. As well as supervising the team responsible for possession sales and LPA Receiver services, Philip handles more complex, high value, or problematic cases.
Contact details
T +44 (0) 1274 378005
F +44 (0) 1274 378199
E phil.harling@drydenslaw.com
Vicki Pollard Chief Operating Officer
Vicki leads the Executive Team and is responsible for the running of the day-to-day business and financial operations. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1988 with PKF and worked in private practice before moving into the financial services sector where she held a number of senior accounting positions. As well as her role as Chief Operating Officer Vicki is responsible for all aspects of financial control and financial planning including client accounting under the Solicitors' Accounts Rules.
Contact detailsT +44 (0) 1274 378010
F +44 (0) 1274 378199
E vicki.pollard@drydenslaw.com
Arlene Rutter Director of Operations
Arlene has over 20 years’ experience at a senior managerial level within financial organisations ranging from Abbey to First Direct. Her substantial operational expertise spans in-house services to full out-sourcing services. Arlene has significant experience of structural and operational change and a strong track record of revolutionising business results through project management skills and her openness to challenge the status quo.
Contact details
T +44 (0) 1274 378032
F +44 (0) 1274 378199
E arlene.rutter@drydenslaw.com
Gerard Barron Director of Commercial Business
Gerard is nationally regarded and is renowned as a commercial debt recovery specialist. He is invited to speak at seminars and training events throughout the industry, and has done for decades. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Credit Management. Gerard headed up and built the former DL A volume debt litigation team before moving to Hammonds to head and build its volume debt litigation team. He left Hammonds in 2002 to establish LCL Collections, the specialist commercial debt management business which was acquired by Drydens in January 2010.
Contact detailsT +44 (0) 1274 378860
F +44 (0) 1274 378199
E gerard.barron@drydenslaw.com
Tim Pope Director of Legal (Insolvency)
Tim qualified as a solicitor in 1982 and spent time as a partner both with DLA (Leeds and London) and Hammonds (London) before joining forces with Philip Holden in LCL Law. A licensed insolvency practitioner, Tim handles both contentious and non contentious insolvency work. His extensive experience in corporate and personal insolvency is a major advantage for the large financial institutions and insolvency practitioners represented by Drydens where recovery of unsecured and secured assets becomes ever more challenging in the current environment.
Contact detailsT +44 (0) 1274 378006
F +44 (0) 1274 378199
E tim.pope@drydenslaw.com