Enhanced service brings together Scottish property expertise and UK-wide asset recovery capabilities, providing a single point of contact for insolvency practitioners and secured lenders.
Following Lambert Smith Hampton’s (LSH) investment in Ryden, the two businesses have brought together their specialist expertise to launch an enhanced restructuring and corporate recovery offering across Scotland.
The expanded service combines Ryden’s established Scottish market presence and property advisory track record with LSH’s UK-wide corporate recovery, plant and machinery capabilities, demonstrating how the investment is broadening the expertise and support available to clients.
Designed for insolvency practitioners, restructuring accountants, and legal professionals, the unified service provides a complete, single-source solution to manage, value, repurpose, and realise distressed assets.
The launch comes against a backdrop of heightened corporate insolvency activity and significant macroeconomic turbulence. Scottish businesses across diverse sectors are confronting severe cost pressures, driven by elevated inflation, rising cost-of-living impacts, higher borrowing costs, and volatile overheads across transportation, manufacturing, materials, machinery and more.
By providing a joined-up approach at the earliest signs of distress, Ryden and LSH enable professional advisors and secured lenders to protect and maximise asset value, while eliminating the administrative burden and inefficiencies of tendering multiple contracts across separate firms.
While Ryden has advised on distressed assets and corporate recovery instructions for decades, the formal integration with LSH’s national Asset Advisory & Corporate Recovery division provides an unmatched end-to-end service suite.
The combined team covers the full spectrum of industrial and commercial asset classes, including manufacturing, industrial & logistics, agriculture, food processing, renewables, construction, life sciences, healthcare, hotels & leisure, retail, and data infrastructure.
David Fraser, Partner, Residential Investment & Development at Ryden, commented:
"Navigating corporate distress requires swift, decisive action and deep market insight. Over the years, we have worked closely with insolvency practitioners and secured lenders to assess complex, distressed property portfolios. In today’s market, simply putting a distressed asset on the market is rarely enough, true value is unlocked by understanding how buildings can be repositioned, repurposed, or adapted for alternative uses.
"By bringing together Ryden’s on-the-ground Scottish market expertise with LSH’s national machinery and business assets team, we offer a genuine single-source solution. When insolvency practitioners engage us early in the lifecycle, they no longer need to coordinate disparate advisors for property, plant, clearance, and planning. We deliver a coordinated, asset-driven strategy that preserves equity and delivers optimum realisations for creditors."
Michael Booth, Head of Asset Advisory at LSH, added:
"With escalating operational costs and supply chain strains continuing to place acute pressure on manufacturing, logistics, and engineering businesses, having a specialist team that understands the value of all asset classes and the ability to realise that value is vital.
"Our partnership with Ryden bridges the gap between local market intelligence in Scotland and national recovery reach. Whether conducting multi-site Red Book valuations, dismantling complex technical facilities, or driving realisations through live online auctions, we provide insolvency professionals with a seamless, compliant, and deadline-driven service from day one."
With more than 130 property specialists operating from offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, alongside LSH’s nationwide network of asset advisory and recovery surveyors, the partnership ensures immediate, on-the-ground support throughout Scotland.
