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Douglas Highet

Professional Support Lawyer
Principal Associate Professional Support Lawyer

Douglas is a Principal Associate Professional Support Lawyer delivering knowledge management, thought leadership and training to legal teams and clients in relation to Restructuring & Insolvency law and practice. 

Douglas is a Principal Associate Professional Support Lawyer in the Restructuring team.  He has experience of a wide range of Restructuring & Insolvency work, both corporate and personal, and contentious and non-contentious. He is experienced in all forms of insolvency procedures across a wide range of sectors, including logistics, retail, telecommunications, IT, energy, education, construction, agriculture, pensions, and sport.  Many of the matters he has worked on have involved cross-border elements.

In his role as a Professional Support Lawyer, Douglas is adept at keeping legal teams and clients up to date with the latest developments in the Restructuring & Insolvency landscape, through delivering knowledge management, education, and training. 

Douglas qualified in 2007 and joined Eversheds Sutherland in 2010, working as a solicitor in its Restructuring group for the next 11 and a half years, before moving to the professional support team in early 2022.  He has been recommended by the Legal 500 as being "highly respected in the market".

 

Douglas is involved in a range of articles, briefings and brochures, with a varied target audience (both internal and external). 

Douglas has been recommended by the Legal 500 as being “highly respected in the market”.

Douglas participates in various industry-wide Professional Support Lawyer groups relating to Restructuring & Insolvency.

Douglas graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class degree in Law in 2004 and also spent a year studying abroad at the Université de Poitiers, France from 2002 - 2003.

Douglas Highet

Professional Support Lawyer

Principal Associate Professional Support Lawyer

Douglas Highet

Professional Support Lawyer

Principal Associate Professional Support Lawyer

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