Alex is a partner in the Restructuring Practice in Weil’s London office. He is experienced in all aspects of business restructuring and insolvency, and focuses on complex insolvency work and financial services (including insurance) insolvency and restructuring. He has particular expertise in the design and implementation of complex schemes of arrangement, cross-border restructurings and formal insolvency procedures.
Experience whilst at his previous firm includes advising:
- General insurance companies on exit strategies for discontinued lines of business in run-off and implementing various solvent and insolvent schemes of arrangement
- Life assurance companies including Equitable Life on the restructuring of its £20 billion with profits fund through a scheme of arrangement, Prudential on its consideration of a reattribution of its inherited estate and the structure of the appropriate legal mechanisms to deliver such a reattribution and another life assurance company on the restructuring of its with profits fund
- On various insolvency related matters in the automotive, transport, telecom and retail industries, including Ford in relation to the TransTec receivership and the Chapter 11 and English administration of the Collins and Aikman group
- Ernst & Young on contingency planning as potential administrators of Eurotunnel in the groundbreaking restructure of 2006
- Foreign officeholders on cross border issues, including the Australian liquidators of New Cap Re (Australia)
- The FSA in relation to matters leading up to and including the Lehman Brothers administration orders
- Various SIVs in relation to their restructure (including Cheyne and Sigma), CLOs and counterparties to Lehman entities including advising Deloitte as receivers of Ruby 2006-5 concerning a synthetic CDS structure with a Lehman counterparty
- Phoenix & London Assurance Limited on the innovative use of a scheme of arrangement to provide investment flexibility for holders of its GAR policies
- PwC as administrators in relation to the pre-packaged insolvency of the EMI Group
- KPMG as judicial manager of British American Insurance Company, a significant Eastern Caribbean composite insurer
- The lenders in relation to the restructuring of facilities provided to care homes provider, Southern Cross
- KPMG as administrators in relation to the administration of the retail chain, the Peacocks Group, and on the pre-packaged administration and sale of Bon Marche
- The lenders in relation to CPPGroup plc
Alex is ranked as a leader in his field in Chambers UK and is singled out as having “the rare ability to grasp detailed technical concepts and adapt his advice accordingly.”
Alex has written numerous publications and given many presentations. He has contributed to the leading publication “The EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings” edited by Moss, Fletcher and Isaacs, OUP.