As part of a team, Tom has represented leading accounting firms and restructuring practices, distressed investors, senior and junior lenders, hedge funds and private equity firms on a variety of workouts and restructurings. Tom also has considerable experience of advising the boards of directors of companies in financial distress.

Tom’s representations include:

• Barclays Bank PLC on the restructuring of General Healthcare Group
• KKR Credit on its on investment in shipping loans and establishment of a shipping portfolio management company
• KKR Credit on the establishment of a Greek NPL platform
• the Lehman estate in chapter 11 in relation to UK and European issues
• the special administrators of MF Global UK Limited following the first ever filing under the Special Administration Regime
• various lenders on the restructuring of two Premier League football clubs
• the board of directors and administrators of XL Airways Group (which was third largest tour operating company in the UK prior to its filing)
• the board of directors and administrators of Connaught plc and several subsidiaries (over 10,000 employees prior to its filing)
• a junior creditor in the multibank pan-European restructuring of the Actavis Group
• London Town Plc in its restructuring and subsequent administration

Tom has completed a secondment to the European Special Situations Group of Goldman Sachs in London and has written articles on restructuring topics.