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Hogan Lovells International LLP Offices

Hogan Lovells International LLP
ATLANTIC HOUSE
HOLBORN VIADUCT
LONDON
EC1A 2FG
England
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Tom Astle

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Work Department

Restructuring & Special Situations

Position

Tom Astle is the Global Head of Restructuring & Special Situations, based in London.

Tom’s clients include funds, investment banks and corporates involved in domestic and multi-jurisdictional restructurings. Tom has 19 years of experience in stressed and distressed situations. These include liabilities management exercises, refinancings, extensions, capital raises and injections and general stakeholder management. The majority have been implemented with successful negotiation of a consensual solvent solution, although he has regularly used Restructuring Plans, pre-packaged administration, CVA and/or a Schemes of Arrangement, to deliver his clients’ preferred solution.

Tom has particular experience of dealing with multiple stakeholders, including syndicates of lenders, sponsors, and material pensions stakeholders. He also has a good working experience of more heavily distressed businesses and trading insolvency.

Languages

English

Education

Bachelor of Laws, The University of Sheffield, 1:1, 1998.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency

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Tom Astle – Hogan Lovells International LLP

Less reliant than some firms in the ranking on internal finance and corporate practice groups to feed the practice, Hogan Lovells International LLP has nonetheless achieved a very strong offering as a destination practice for a balanced mix of creditors and debtors. On the creditor front, as well as acting for a considerable number of banks, the team has, under the guidance of Tom Astle, developed an impressive roster of fund clients, which are appreciative of its ability to ‘combine legal understanding and motivation of involved parties in order to synthesise a solid strategy’. Alex Kay is a pivotal resource to many of these funds as buy-side investors, as well as in the context of ad-hoc committees, and has developed a particularly formidable practice in relation to work/opportunities in the emerging markets. James Maltby is also recommended and has a very versatile practice for banks, credit funds and IPs, as well as successfully growing the team’s restructuring trustee practice.

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