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Meet the Team

Our team is passionate about improving our service and it is our focus to understand the things that give our clients problems by fixing them with ease.

That means flexibility, decisiveness and where applicable a bespoke strategy to ensure the best result for client and customers alike with the absolute minimum of fuss.

We’re ambitious because we want to deliver our goals and our track record proves that we do.

Our business is a data driven, analytics led practice which is made up of determined people who care about what we do and because we’re a close-knit team we know we can rely on each other. Honesty and respect are imperative to us and we believe we can’t achieve our goals without them. Everyone in our team makes a huge contribution and works hard to deliver. This means that you can expect us to deliver on our commitments and stay informed.

Our technology is cutting edge and our solutions are creative because we want to deliver new and better ways of providing your service.

Paul Alker

Solicitor Director - Head of Legal Practice (HOLP) Paul is our Director of Legal Services and a solicitor with 14 years PQE. He oversees all of our advocacy and litigation services. Paul has over 25 years of experience in dealing with both complex civil litigation and consumer debt recovery for both large and small corporations. Paul is also extremely knowledgeable in all matters related to compliance and regulation especially in the setting up of compliance, management and audit systems for clients with debt portfolios and in delivering our client reporting processes. Paul will ensure that, in the increasingly changing legal and regulatory environment, we continue to develop and deliver compliance protocols that are efficient, cost effective and transparent.

Max Houghton

Director - Chief Operating Officer Max is our COO having joined in March 2020. Max has some 20 years experience in a wide range and variety of litigation having spent 15 years at Restons Solicitors. Max also brings a wealth of experience and expertise in unsecured and secured collections, bulk debt recovery litigation and CCA regulated debt claims. Max is both SRA and FCA authorised.