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"I am experienced in guiding clients through the complexities of financial restructurings and formal insolvency proceedings in Asia. I actively listen to clients' needs and provide tailored, strategic solutions to secure their best interests."
Overview
Roberta has over a decade of experience and specialises in complex cross-border restructurings, enforcements and insolvencies. She advises clients, including secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, insolvency practitioners and other stakeholders across the spectrum of financial restructurings, insolvencies and special situations in Asia.
She was seconded to the distressed asset legal team of Standard Chartered Bank in 2018.
Work highlights
Roberta has extensive experience advising:
- creditors, including CoCom and Ad Hoc Group, on numerous holistic restructurings involving PRC real estate developers.
- creditors on enforcement options and strategies, including receivership appointments over listed shares and real estate assets.
- creditors on the structuring of special situation financings involving real estate and other sectors.
- coordination committee of lenders on a number of holistic restructurings involving Chinese real estate developers.*
- ad hoc group of perpetual noteholders on the financial restructuring of an airline company based in Hong Kong by way of a parallel Hong Kong scheme of arrangement and English restructuring plan.*
- a group of Chinese banks on the restructuring of a leading offshore drilling company 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.*
- receivers on the successful sale of an operating hotel in Hong Kong, which resulted in a full repayment of the debt owed to the appointing creditor.*
- mezzanine creditors on managing their exposure under a facility extended to the subsidiaries of a Hong Kong-listed company holding a grade A1 office building in Hong Kong.*
* This deal was worked on by another firm.
Experience
Roberta also plays a role in various organisations, serving as:
- General Member of the Board of Directors of IWIRC Hong Kong
- Adjudicator of the Registration of Persons Tribunal
- Member of Passport Appeal Board
- Member of Transport Tribunals’ Panel