Sidley Austin LLP

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Melissa Coakley

Melissa Coakley

Melissa Coakley leads the London Restructuring and Insolvency team. Melissa advises a broad spectrum of stakeholders on consensual and non-consensual cross border and domestic restructurings, work outs, reorganisations and formal insolvencies. Melissa's commercialism, high level of technical knowledge and strategic thinking has seen her acting across sectors (including infrastructure, retail, transport, telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas, financial services, commodities), across geographies, engaging with differing regulatory environments and legal systems (including 5 years spent on secondment in the Middle East), and for a wide variety of stakeholders: corporate borrowers, funds, banks, insolvency officeholders, government, private equity sponsors and material trade creditors.
David Smith

David Smith

David is a Senior Associate Recoveries Manager, heading up our Consumer Regulated Litigation & Recoveries team in Scotland.  He has experience in dealing with all aspects of Secured and Unsecured debt recovery throughout Scotland, as well as supporting in other dispute resolution matters as required. David provides a quality and comprehensive recoveries service with a client and customer centric focus.  He was involved with advising a number of banking clients on the changes to mortgage repossession in Scotland following the introduction of the Home Owner and Debtor Protection (Scotland) Act 2010. He is also experienced in producing bespoke management information to match our client’s needs.