James Maltby > Hogan Lovells International LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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James Maltby
Work Department
Business Restructuring and Insolvency - London (F1) Team
Position
Partner
Career
James was promoted to the partnership in January 2020 and is a key figure in the development and future of the practice in London. For more than 10 years James has advised debt funds and investment banks on their investments in distressed situations and banks and corporates on all their restructuring needs. His work covers debt and equity re-organisations (implemented consensually or using cram down procedures), refinancings, new money injections, enforcements and contingency planning. He also advises on distressed M&A transactions and trading insolvencies.
Clients appreciate James’ level headed approach and commercial advice, his ability to manage complicated multi-stakeholder transactions and his highly focussed approach to deal execution. The majority of James’ work is cross-border and involves complex capital structures. He has significant experience in the retail, travel, casual dining, aviation, real estate, pharmaceuticals and logistics sectors and has a broad client base across the investment bank and debt fund community as well as close relationships with UK and European banks.
For a number of years he has been at the centre of some of the team’s most high profile transactions and his recent deal highlights include advising on Thomas Cook, Fairhold, Famar, Conviviality, Palmer & Harvey and Gaucho.
Languages
English
Memberships
Law Society of England and Wales
Education
M.A., University of Cambridge
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
(Next Generation Partners)Hogan Lovells International LLP has ‘a very commercial approach and is focused on solving problems’ for an impressively broad stakeholder base that includes banks, funds, IPs and corporates. Consequently, the team has excellent knowledge of “what is market”, and is as comfortable handling complex capital structure financial restructurings and special situation mandates, as it is mid-market UK insolvency matters. Tom Astle provides ‘technical and high-quality advice’, which manifests itself in a broad array of restructuring and insolvency matters, including his recent lead role as part of a multi-disciplinary offering for the special administrators of FCA-authorised investment bank and wholesale broker Sova Capital. ‘Commercial and knowledgeable way beyond his years’, James Maltby co-heads the team along with Astle and delivers advice ‘in a calm and collected manner’ for a creditor-focused client base that includes banks and private capital providers. Alex Kay is also a key member of the team and has forged a particularly strong reputation for buy side investors and creditor committees in relation to emerging markets mandates – including a considerable amount with a Ukrainian nexus.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate restructuring & insolvency London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Finance > Trade finance
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property finance
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Transport > Aviation
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > High yield
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Real estate > Planning
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Transport > Rail
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders