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WOOLGATE EXCHANGE, 25 BASINGHALL STREET, LONDON, EC2V 5HA, ENGLAND
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Work 020 7360 3600
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Patrick Corr

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Sidley Austin LLP

Work Department

Corporate reorganisation and bankruptcy.

Position

Patrick has extensive experience in both contentious and non-contentious corporate recovery and turnaround matters. Recent representative engagements include: restructuring of the Cordiant group of companies; Enron (administration proceedings in England, acting for administrators of various UK entities; client, the debtors); Parmalat SpA (extraordinary administration (Italy) and liquidation (Ireland); client, global senior lender) (notable decision, the ECJ asked to consider, for the first time, certain provisions of the EU regulation on insolvency proceedings as a consequence of conflicting decisions of the Irish and Italian courts); restructuring of multinational electronic company (client, equity investor); Owens Corning (Chapter 11; client, debtor); Sea Containers Ltd (Chapter 11 proceedings in the USA and provisional liquidation in Bermuda, client, the debtor); the Laurel Pub Company Limited and other group companies (in administration) client, the debtor; Orion SIV, client, the senior subordinated noteholders; Lehman Brothers International (Europe), (in administration) clients, various counterparties to Lehman transactions; TI Automotive Group (restructuring and scheme of arrangement), client, a senior lender committee; Ideal Standard International Acquisition S.a r.L, clients, Facility Agent and certain senior lenders; restructuring various companies within the Regus group, client, Regus; TI Automotive group, client, senior creditor committee; Titan Outdoor Advertising limited (in administration), client, the Administrators.

Career

Qualified England and Wales (solicitor) 1990.

Member

Member of City of London Law Society Insolvency Law Committee.

Education

Leeds Metropolitan University (1987 LLB).

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