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Bethan Cunniffe

Legal Director

Bethan acts for a wide range of stakeholders including insolvency practitioners, corporate entities, litigation funders, shareholders, directors of insolvent estates and secured and unsecured creditors.

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About

Bethan has extensive experience acting on consensual and contested complex, billion dollar cross-border restructurings involving schemes of arrangement, Chapter 11, restructuring of high yield bonds, debt-for-equity swaps and rights offerings spanning several sectors across numerous continents.

Bethan also has experience acting on complex pre-pack transactions and leading multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional teams. Bethan regularly provides directors’ duties advice in an insolvency context and has recently acted on a number of formal insolvencies.

Experience

• advising insolvency practitioners all aspects of an administration including defending an application for an order removing them from their office as administrators and for the relief and the sale of certain assets.

• advising a global multi-metals smelting and mining business, on the restructuring of its €2.6 billion indebtedness and the recapitalisation of its operating group.

• advising the trustees in bankruptcy in relation to various claims including transactions at an undervalue.

• advising insolvency practitioners on the sales of various business and hotels in administration.

• advising a global oil and gas well flow management group, regarding its pre-packaged US Chapter 11 plan of reorganisation, a US $1.4 debt-for-equity swap and US $200m rights offer.

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