Rory is a restructuring and insolvency lawyer in our London office.
Rory specialises in advising insolvency practitioners, financial institutions (including major clearing banks and debt funds), bondholders, large corporates, directors, private equity sponsors and other stakeholders on a wide range of restructuring and insolvency-related matters across a broad variety of sectors.
He has a particular focus on complex and cross-border financial restructurings involving multiple jurisdictions and different stakeholders in the capital structure and providing pragmatic, commercial and innovative advice.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Consort Healthcare (Tameside) plc on its Part 26A restructuring plan (which was the first RP to be proposed by a PFI company).
- The Solar 21 group on its financial restructuring, which was implemented via two interconditional Irish law schemes of arrangement.
- KCA Deutag (a global oil and gas services company) in connection with its USD 1.9bn financial restructuring (which involved a debt for equity swap implemented by way of an English law scheme of arrangement).
- MediaPro (one of the largest multimedia entities in Spain) on its successful recapitalisation
- Interpath (as administrators) on the pre-packaged administration of the D&D restaurant group.
- A major US hedge fund (in its capacity as major shareholder and secured lender) on the potential insolvency and then subsequent administration of Flybe Limited
