Anna Hodgson

Expertise

Anna has been at Addleshaw Goddard for 20 years and has completed secondments to two clearing banks.

Anna has a broad practice area in the restructuring and insolvency space. Anna acts for many clients including funds, corporates, lenders (with particular focus on ABLs) and insolvency practitioners in relation to turnaround solutions including debt and equity acquisitions, restructuring and disposal at all stages of the cycle.

Anna's clients include ABLs, clearing banks, alternative funds, pension providers along with all the major restructuring FAs and she has recently led various, complex, and high value transactions including most recently:

• advising the Liquidators (Kroll) of Arena Television Limited in respect of the largest fraud in the ABL sector (£285 million and 50+ lenders), this has resulted in complex litigation and pursuing relevant individuals and securing their bankruptcy within 3 months of appointment
• advising the Administrators (Interpath) of Amscan/Wonder an ABL funded business that involved dealing with 10+ jurisdictions including the sale of assets alongside disposals of solvent subsidiaries
• following a considerable director advisory piece of work, Anna led the AG deal team in respect of the pre-pack sale of Prezzo which resulted in the preservation of jobs and restaurants. Anna acted for FTI as Administrators in respect of this transaction
• acting for an interested party in respect of the Hartley Pensions Limited failure (circa £1.2 billion of pension funds)
• advised FRP as Liquidators of Maker&Son Limited in respect of their appointment and the conversion from Administration to Liquidation which resulted in a reported judgement