Natasha Ayres is a Senior Knowledge and Practice Development Counsel in the Restructuring team, based in London.
Natasha has extensive experience in providing a wide range of advice and support in relation to domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters, and supports the London Restructuring team with its technical know-how and business development.
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In sanctioning Chaptre Finance plc’s second Part 26A restructuring plan, the English High Court has emphasised the importance of the parties adhering to the Court’s evidential and procedural requirements when a restructuring plan is opposed. Significantly, Mr Justice Miles’ guidance was given in circumstances where the Court accepted the plan company was facing an acute
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The High Court has exercised its cram down power and sanctioned the Part 26A restructuring plans proposed by four of Cineworld’s UK operating companies, in face of significant opposition from its landlord creditors. In sanctioning the plan, Cineworld’s UK Group has avoided administration at the end of September.
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The Galapagos Group has secured comprehensive affirmation of its 2019 debt restructuring (the “Restructuring”) from the English High Court. This decision is a significant step towards resolution of the highly contested restructuring, and provides market participants with further clarity and certainty when it comes to implementing lender-led transactions in future. The key focus of the
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Introduction Today, the UK Supreme Court considered for the first time the existence, content and engagement of the so-called “creditor duty”: the alleged duty of a company’s directors to consider, or to act in accordance with, the interests of the company’s creditors when the company becomes insolvent, or when it approaches, or is at real
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