'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'.
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- 'They have expertise in restructuring, including UK restructuring plans.'
- 'It is a small but perfectly formed team.'
- 'John Houghton is experienced and knowledgeable.'
- 'Hannah Blom-Cooper has a wealth of experience in contentious insolvencies.'
Key clients
- Prezzo Group
- Grant Thornton UK LLP (as Administrators of RoyaleLife)
- Georgy Bedzhamov
- Martin Trott, liquidator of Old Park Capital Maestro Fund Limited (in Official Liquidation)
- ReSolve Advisory (as Administrators of Festicket Limited)
- Tradition Financial Services Ltd
- Ad Hoc Group (AHG) of bondholders holding secured bonds in Atlas Mara Limited
- Selina Hospitality PLC
- FRP Advisory (as liquidators of SPV Road Carpet Limited)
Work highlights
- Advised a committee of senior creditors to Fürst, a large multipurpose property development in Berlin, on a restructuring to be achieved through a UK Part 26A restructuring plan.
- Advised Prezzo Group in relation to its successful financial and leasehold estate restructuring, implemented by way of a restructuring plan under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006.
- Defending Mr Bedzhamov, a HNW Russian businessman now located in the UK, before the Supreme Court, in a dispute alleging he was the victim of a corporate raid in £1.34bn civil fraud proceedings brought by Vneshprombank LLC, a now-insolvent Russian bank where he was an investor.
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John Houghton