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Distressed Debt and Claims Trading

Our distressed debt and claims trading practice has extensive experience in the diligence, structuring and negotiating of secondary debt trades and our in-depth knowledge enables us to provide advice across the full life-cycle of a debt trade.

We represent a broad range of parties involved in debt trading including: hedge and special opportunities funds, private equity funds, financial institutions, managed account platforms, asset managers; and collateralised loan obligations.

We understand the debt trading market and appreciate the commercial context in which our clients operate. We know that debt trading requires responsive lawyers who work efficiently and effectively to get deals done. We work alongside the world’s best independent law firms, firms that understand restructuring and debt trading, in order to provide outstanding cross-border advice.

Our team is based across the derivatives and trading and banking and finance groups, working alongside other groups in Macfarlanes, including restructuring and insolvency, structured finance and debt capital markets, funds, real estate, tax and corporate. This comprehensive, integrated approach enables us to provide legal advice on all aspects of the debt trading process.

Recent work

Hayfin Capital Management

Advising Hayfin Capital Management in connection with a joint venture for the purchase of non-performing loans from Spanish “bad bank” SAREB.

Warwick Capital Partners

Advising Warwick Capital Partners on all aspects of debt and claims trading.

GAME Digital

Advising OpCapita in relation to the "loan to own" acquisition of GAME prior to its flotation.

A global bank and various hedge funds

Advising a global bank and various hedge funds on the purchase and disposal of claims against Lehman Brothers International (Europe), MF Global UK and various insolvent Icelandic banks.

UK credit fund

Advising a UK credit fund on total return swaps to give it exposure to European syndicated loans.

A real estate investment manager

Advising a real estate investment manager on the purchase of commercial real estate debt owned by a shopping centre investor.

Candlewick Asset Management

Advising Candlewick Asset Management in relation to acquisitions of hotel sector loans for the purpose of then acquiring the underlying assets.

Aviva

Advising Aviva in relation to securities lending trade, collateralised with corporate loans.

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Christopher Acton

 Partner
+44 (0)20 7849 2543 Email Christopher

Jat Bains

 Partner
+44 (0)20 7849 2234 Email Jat

Paul Keddie

 Partner
+44 (0)20 7849 2894 Email Paul

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"The team produces consistently high quality work within very short time frames. Their experience and knowledge within the sector is first class."

The UK Legal 500 2023

"Highly commercial, pragmatic and solutions focused."

The UK Legal 500 2023

"The team consistently delivers such a high standard of work and their commercial approach and industry knowledge are first class."

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"They have excellent technical knowledge and are always a pleasure to work with."

The UK Legal 500 2023

"Very professional, well informed, technically strong and reliable team. Always seek to deliver and always meet deadlines. Very high quality across all the team. Easy to deal with."

The UK Legal 500 2023

"They excel at coordinating transactions involving multiple jurisdictions with other legal counsel and compiling advice therefrom in order to deliver a unified legal advice to their client."

The UK Legal 500 2023