High Profile Matters

• Special Liquidators of IBRC on international recovery and litigation action against bank's largest borrower
• The Co-operative Bank p.l.c., for the Ad Hoc Committee of Noteholders' £700M recapitalisation via schemes of arrangement
• Privatbank advising Madison Pacific Trust as note trustee to noteholders following a bail-in process subsequent to a systemic bank fraud
• Petroceltic International plc on the hostile examinership-led acquisition by Worldview Capital Management 
• Etihad Airline Partners on its debut $1.2 billion platform financing program for 7 airlines and related service companies and on the subsequent insolvencies of Alitalia and Air Berlin
• Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. during its bankruptcy on realising and restructuring various of its European debt and equity investments, including real estate and hospitality assets.

Other experience

• Advising on lending and intercreditor issues on many HY/LevFin transactions, including Delphi, Petra Diamonds, Novacap, Vale, Afren, Gulf Keystone Petroleum, Monarch Air, Nido Student Housing, CHC Helicopters, Mirion, Patheon and PCI Logistics
• Advising various noteholder/lender committees and credit investors on restructurings, including Norwegian Air, Four Seasons Healthcare, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Government of Belize, Congo, Belvedere, Debenhams, Schefenacker, Bilcare, Polaroid Inc, Breeze III & Breeze IV, IVG Immobilien, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, BSS, SEAT Pagine, Ferretti Yachts, Scheide Mobel, TwoSisters Foods, TXU and Quinn Group.

• Has practised as a barrister, qualifying in 1994 (Inner Temple)
• Admitted as a solicitor in 1998
• Member of R3, the UK’s leading association of business recovery professionals
• Member of INSOL International