Tim Crocker

Partner

Tim acts for creditors, debtors, insolvency officeholders and trustees on all (non-litigious) aspects of financial restructurings and formal insolvency proceedings. He has significant experience of complex, cross-border restructurings in addition to having acted on various domestic cases.

Tim has extensive restructuring experience across a broad range of sectors (particularly automotive, shipping, real estate, oil and gas, and retail). He acts for stakeholders at all levels of the capital structure – debtors, directors, bank and bond creditors, distressed investors, sponsors, insolvency officeholders and trustees/agents – and has worked on cases covering the full spectrum of restructuring from distressed refinancings through to debt reductions and compositions, and formal insolvency proceedings.

He recently acted for the co-ordinating committee of creditors on the recent restructurings of Ukrainian headquartered Interpipe (total debt of US$1.4bn), Marme Inversiones - owner and lessor of Santander's headquarters building (total debt of c.€3.1bn) and the German/Italian auto-services company Fintyre (total debt c.300m) and is currently advising Greensill Bank AG's insolvency administrator on the restructuring and settlement of its claims, in excess of EUR 3bn, against various companies firming part of the Gupta Family Group Alliance.

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