Background
Jim is one of the senior professionals in the London restructuring market, having been a leading restructuring partner/MD for 25 years, and heads our UK Complex Restructuring team.
Jim brings experience and leadership to complex, high value, restructuring situations. Approximately half of Jim’s case load involves acting as principal, and half as advisor to corporates and their stakeholders. By definition Jim’s case load tends to be high profile, requiring extensive stakeholder liaison and mediation to achieve complex deals. Across his career, Jim has dealt with assets and debt in the £billions.
Project Experience
High profile engagements in the public domain include:
- Intu Properties PLC – FT-100 size property owner and manager, one of the markets largest and highest profile mandates of recent years, with assets and debt >£5 billion
- Toucan Energy – £700 million sale, UK’s largest ever solar energy transaction
- Stenn Finance – $900 million lending to international invoice financing platform
- Thomas Cook – high profile sale of TC’s retail business, preserving 2,500 jobs, and airport slots to Easyjet and Jet2
- Waldorf Petroleum – North Sea oil & gas – Topco administration, £200m sale to Harbour Energy delivered through Opco Restructuring Plans
- Calon Energy – owner of 2.,300 MW of CCGT power stations
- TXU Europe – one of Britain’s biggest power suppliers, realisations included a material settlement receipt from its US parent, TXU Corp
- Monarch Airlines administration, including the sale of Monarch's Gatwick slots to British Airways after winning Court of Appeal precedent
- Debenhams CVA – the CVA market’s largest consensual compromise of >£1 billion of claims ; Mothercare CVA
- First Oil Expro Limited; additional listed Oil & Gas companies
- Aero Inventory and TES Aviation – extensive aircraft parts portfolios
- Visteon UK – automotive supplier
- Petroplus Group – refining
- Erinaceous, Broadoaks, Sonnenberg, Devilica and De Stefano property groups, all cross-border situations.
Jim’s sector coverage includes Real Estate, Infrastructure & Energy, Airlines and Aerospace, Retail, Oil & Gas and Automotive
