Biography
Georgia Papathanasiou is an associate in the Restructuring group in London.
Georgia has experience acting for major financial institutions, private equity sponsors, corporate advisory firms and large multinational companies in contentious and non-contentious matters related to complex refinancing, administration and liquidation, schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans and cross-border transactions.
Her representative transactions include:
- advising Ares on the refinancing of TalkTalk Telecom Group
- advising Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc on its subordinated debt litigation with various UK subsidiaries, concerning the relative ranking of over $10 billion of subordinated claims in the UK estates
- advising IGM Resins and its sponsor on their restructuring implemented using a UK scheme of arrangement
- advising a global tax and immigration consultancy group on its $1.5 billion restructuring
- advising the senior facilities lenders on the restructuring of an aerospace manufacturer
- advising the Chapter 11 plan administrator in the US$1.19 billion restructuring of the China Fishery Group, including in connection with the Part 26A restructuring plan*
- advising on the scheme of arrangement of Codere SA*
- advising on the sale of certain parts of the business and assets of British Steel Limited to Jingye Steel (UK)*
*matters worked on prior to joining Weil