Stephenson Harwood

Finance

Tim is a highly experienced finance lawyer, with more than 20 years' experience advising on distressed financings, complex debt restructurings and insolvency. His expertise covers stressed refinancings and emergency new lending, debt trading, out of court restructurings, the use of composition proceedings (schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans), and formal insolvency proceedings. With an established track-record in leading multi-disciplinary legal teams, he has notable experience devising complex implementation structures, managing stakeholders, and addressing and resolving thorny intercreditor issues.

Tim has extensive restructuring experience across a broad range of sectors (particularly steel, automotive, shipping, real estate, oil and gas, and retail).  He acts for stakeholders at all levels of the capital structure – debtors, directors, bank and bond creditors, distressed investors, sponsors, insolvency officeholders and trustees/agents – and has worked across the full spectrum of restructuring from distressed refinancings through to debt reductions and compositions, and formal insolvency proceedings.

His case portfolio encompasses complex cross-border restructurings as well as domestic cases.