Jessica Walker

Jessica’s experience includes advising:

Companies and Boards of Directors

• Silicon Valley Bank – advising corporate depositors on the implications of insolvency in US and UK
• Farfetch – advising on the restructuring of the luxury e-commerce retailer involving a UK pre-pack administration process
• New Look – advising on its CVA and defending a challenge in the High Court
• Hong Kong Airlines – advising on its parallel restructuring plans in England and Hong Kong
• Biwater – advising on the defense of a winding up petition brought by the group’s Pensions Trustees
• Whirli Ltd – advising the board on the run-up to insolvency and the sale of the business out of administration
• Arjowiggins – advising on the acquisition by Fedrigoni SpA of assets from the administrators
• Robertshaw Group – advising the UK part of the group on its Chapter 11
• Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group – advising on its restructuring through an English scheme of arrangement
• North Sea oil and gas company, ATP – advising on its successful US$1.2 billion restructuring through an English CVA and Chapter 15 recognition, following its parent’s Chapter 11 filing

Creditors

• Greensill – advising Credit Suisse as secured creditor in Greensill’s insolvency in England and Australia
• Petrofac – advising the incumbent RCF lenders in relation to the financial consequences of Petrofac’s guilty plea to ‘failure to prevent bribery’ and its connected recapitalization
• Borr Drilling – advising a secured creditor in the restructuring of the group
• Wind Farms – advising a secured creditor to the operators of two wind farms in separate Swedish reorganisation processes
• A Financial Services Company – advising a major program manager on the rights and recovery of customers and creditors in the administration
• Lifeways Group – advising the secured creditors on the UK group’s restructuring plan
• Volta Trucks – advising the secured creditors in respect of contingency planning and the subsequent insolvency and asset sale
• Derby County FC – advising the secured creditor in relation to the club’s administration

Insolvency Practitioners

• Small World – advising the special administrators of payment service provider
• Babylon Healthcare – advising the administrators on the UK pre-pack sale of the business and ongoing administration process
• Farfetch – advising the administrators on the restructuring of the luxury e-commerce retailer involving a UK pre-pack administration process

Other Stakeholders

• A non-UK central bank – advising on its application to the Bank of England for recognition of a third-country resolution action under the Banking Act 2009
• Essar Energy – advising on the enforcement by a leading Indian bank of guarantees and security in respect of a US$500 million debt
• Mothercare – advising the pension trustees on the company’s CVA, subsequent administration and business sale
• Ideal Standard – advising the security trustee on restructuring of the group through enforcement of Luxembourg security and liquidations in Cayman
• A non-UK central bank – advising on the impact of preferred creditor status of an international financial institution on its other financing arrangements
• Norwegian Airlines – advising a major creditor on the implications of the company’s Irish examinership
• Auto Teile Unger – advising US Bank Trustees Ltd as security trustee on the restructuring of the group’s US$300 million debt and subsequent sale of the German tyre chain