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Meet the partners

Atherton Bailey's five partners are significant players in insolvency and business recovery in the southeast. Heading up offices in Crawley, Worthing, Southend, Maidstone and Southampton, together they have more than 110 years' professional experience.

Malcolm Fillmore — Crawley office

Malcolm is the senior founding partner of Atherton Bailey. A Chartered Accountant, the whole of his professional career has been devoted to providing corporate recovery and insolvency services. For many years in senior positions at Touche Ross (now Deloittes)...

Ranjit Bajjon — Crawley and Worthing offices

Ranjit is the managing partner of Atherton Bailey with more than 20 years' practical business rescue experience. She is also partner-in-charge of the Worthing office, which she set up in 1997 as a green field site and the first office outside of London for the long-established firm of Begbies...

Ruth Duncan — Maidstone office

Ruth Duncan has 20 years’ experience in business rescue and insolvency practice. She entered the sector in the mid 1980s, after a period at the Department of Trade and Industry...

Clive Purdy — Southend office

Clive Purdy joined Atherton Bailey in October 2005 and was appointed a partner from January 1, 2006 responsible for managing the Southend-on-Sea office...

Jim Pretty — Southampton office

Jim Pretty is a founding partner of Atherton Bailey. A Certified Accountant (FCCA), Jim trained with Ernst & Young in London. After opting to specialise in insolvency, he then spent time working for Grant Thornton and Stoy Hayward...