Overview
Roberta has over a decade of experience specialising in restructuring, insolvency and special situations. She supports a range of clients including bank creditors, funds, corporates, insolvency practitioners and other stakeholders on R&I matters across different jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Greater China.
She has extensive experience handling complex situations, including consensual and non-consensual restructurings, liability management exercises, refinancings, security enforcements, distressed debt trading and distressed M&A.
She was seconded to the distressed asset legal team of Standard Chartered Bank in 2018.
Experience
Roberta has extensive experience advising:
- Creditors on numerous holistic restructurings involving PRC real estate developers, including advising the CoCom of Lenders in relation to China SCE, Powerlong, CIFI and Aoyuan.
- Creditors on enforcement strategies and appointment of receivers over listed shares and real estate assets, including the Kimberley Hotel and the Goldin Financial Global Centre in Hong Kong, the offshore holding structure of a portfolio of hotels in the PRC and a major real estate project in Taiwan.
- New World Development Company Limited on the structuring and implementation of a landmark financing transaction of approximately HK$88.2bn. This financing represents the largest transaction of its kind ever executed in the history of Hong Kong SAR.
- Creditors on the structuring and implementation of refinancings and restructurings of loans made available to Hong Kong real estate developers, with security over Hong Kong real estate assets.
- Ad hoc group of perpetual noteholders on the restructuring of Hong Kong Airlines by way of a parallel Hong Kong scheme of arrangement and English restructuring plan.*
- A group of bank creditors on the restructuring of Seadrill Limited by way of a US Chapter 11 plan.*
- A syndicate of banks on the restructuring of the senior facilities extended to a SZSE-listed mining company secured by assets in Australia, Chile, England and the PRC.*
* This deal was worked on by her previous firm.
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