John Houghton > Greenberg Traurig, LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

‘Small but perfectly formed’, Greenberg Traurig, LLP advises debtors, creditors and investors across a wide array of work, from special situations and amend and extend transactions through to administration processes. Although the team – which also regularly works alongside international offices throughout its European and US network on cross-border deals – is sector agnostic, it is particularly effective in the real estate field, where it is able to leverage the firm’s overarching subject matter knowledge and strong client base that includes real estate funds. Team head John Houghton is ‘experienced and knowledgeable’ across a range of formal processes and more transactional work, and has been particularly active in relation to the use of the UK restructuring plan, including in restructurings involving foreign debtors. Drawing upon his former transactional finance grounding, Rupert Cheetham excels in consensual workouts and schemes, while Hannah Blom-Cooper ‘has a wealth of experience in contentious insolvencies‘.