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Corporate Turnaround and Insolvency

Experience

  • Acting on over 500 LPA Receiverships of commercial premises on behalf of receivers appointed by a variety of banks and building society

  • 14 administrations and 12 restructuring assignments ranging from £0.5 million to £3 billion

  • Advising Lloyds Banking Group on a number of multi million pound loan restructurings and enforcements based out of their Corporate Real Estate Business Support team in London

  • Advising Specialist Dental Holdings on the restructure of one of the largest dental groups in the UK

  • Advising Nationwide Building Society and Baker Tilly Restructuring & Recovery LLP on the receivership and management of high value commercial office blocks in Bristol and Cardiff (with loans in excess of £50 million) owned by the collapsed property group, Dawnay, Day

  • Acting for Vail Williams on the LPA receivership (appointed by Co-operative Bank) of a £125 million commercial property investment portfolio of RBS and NatWest Branches

  • Advising Lloyds Banking Group and Gladedale Group Holdings Limited in the restructuring of the Gladedale Group with facilities of £660 million

  • Advising Lloyds Banking Group and David Chubb and Rob Lewis of PWC as administrators of Hawtin plc

  • Advising the London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority in following the presentation of a winding up petition against AssetCo plc, the supplier and servicer of emergency equipment to he Authority under a PFI agreement

  • Acting for the Trustees of the Great Lakes Pension Plan following the entry into and subsequent emergence from Chapter 11 proceedings of the US parent of the UK company

  • Acting for the Trustees of pensions schemes in the following corporate failures: Alexandra Workware, ROK, Sea Containers, Alitalia and Sofa Brands

  • Acting for the Trustees of the Chesapeake plc final salary pension scheme on mitigation for their £200 million scheme in the face of Chapter 11 proceedings affecting the whole of the group, and in the subsequent restructuring of the group, including ongoing advice on potential detriment occasioned by the re-banking of group facilities by its equity backers

  • Advising various private equity institutions on significant restructuring of investee companies.