Megan Boyle joined Bermans in February 2025 and is a Trainee Solicitor in our Insolvency team.
Megan supports the team across a broad spectrum of both corporate and personal insolvency matters, encompassing a mix of contentious and non-contentious work, reflecting the diverse nature of the cases we handle.
Her experience includes assisting the solicitors with a wide range of tasks, such as:
Applications for administration extensions
Drafting winding-up petitions
Applications for the rescission of winding-up orders
Possession and sale applications
Settlement agreements
Director disqualification proceedings
Assisting with applications for permission to act as a director following disqualification
Preparing pre-action correspondence and documentation
She has an Undergraduate degree in Spanish and Business (BA) and has also completed a Law conversion course. Megan then went onto complete a Masters in law (LLM). She is currently undertaking the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE).
Outside of work Megan enjoys walking, pilates and travelling and is a Manchester City supporter.
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Jonathan joined Bermans in 2013 following a stellar career with leading national firm and was the Liverpool Law Society’s “Solicitor of the Year”. He has become a key member of the asset based lending team. He will be a familiar face to many of you assisting lenders with commercial recovery work and he has worked on some highly complex cases, including acting for a US commercial financier in a claim under a Connecticut law guarantee against a UK based guarantor.
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