Biography
Jamie’s practice covers both creditor-side and debtor-side financial restructuring and insolvency mandates across a number of industries and sectors, including, financial services, sovereign debt, media, and energy and natural resources. Jamie’s clients include leading international funds, intermediaries, and insolvency practitioners.
Jamie has been part of the team recognised by the following awards: IFLR Europe’s “Impact Award of the Year 2025” for Ukraine’s debt restructuring, GRR Awards “Sovereign Debt Restructuring of the Year 2024”and FT Innovative Lawyers “Innovative Lawyers in Restructuring 2024” for Zambia’s debt restructuring.
Jamie is dual qualified in E&W and Scotland. Prior to joining Weil, Jamie was a member of the restructuring team at a US firm in London.
Representative experience includes:
- Advising an ad hoc group of noteholders in relation to the restructuring of Petrofac
- Advising an ad hoc committee of Ethiopia’s bondholders in connection with Ethiopia’s sovereign restructuring
- Advising an ad hoc committee of Ukraine’s Eurobonds in connection with Ukraine’s $23 billion sovereign debt restructuring
- Advising an ad hoc creditors’ committee of Zambia’s Eurobond holders in relation to Zambia’s sovereign restructuring
- Advising Teneo as administrators of VTB Capital PLC
- Advising Vice Media, as debtors’ counsel, in the chapter 11 cases of the global digital media and broadcasting company in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York*
- Advising the ad hoc committee of bondholders on the restructuring of VIC Properties S.A.
- Advising Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent and lender under a revolving credit agreement in connection with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Valaris plc and certain of its subsidiaries*
- Advising an agent in connection with a multi-jurisdictional enforcement by lenders over a real estate group*
- Advising the joint administrators of Cox & Kings on the successful pre-packaged sale of the business and assets to a trade competitor*
- Advising the joint liquidators of an event sector company on the successful sale of its main asset to a trade competitor*
*denotes experience gained at previous firms