The move arrives after LSH’s investment in Ryden.

The broadened service brings together Ryden’s Scottish market presence and property advisory background with LSH’s UK-wide corporate recovery, plant and machinery offering.

The unified service, which is made for insolvency practitioners, restructuring accountants, and legal professionals, provides a solution to manage, value, repurpose, and realise distressed assets. 

The move arrives at a time of increasing corporate insolvency activity and major macroeconomic turbulence. 

Scottish businesses in diverse sectors are facing severe cost pressures, prompted by elevated inflation, increasing cost-of-living impacts, higher borrowing costs, as well as volatile overheads in transportation, manufacturing, materials, machinery and more.

David Fraser, partner in residential investment & development at Ryden, said: “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.”

Fraser added: “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.”

Michael Booth, head of asset advisory at LSH, added: “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.”