Tom Davies is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Restructuring & Special Situations Practice.

Tom has experience across a broad range of restructuring and insolvency-related matters, having advised banks, corporates, bondholders, and other stakeholders.

Tom’s experience includes advising:

  • The ad hoc committee of term, RCF, and L/C lenders to ARVOS, the global manufacturer and supplier of industrial equipment, heat exchange, and transfer solutions, on its €590 million debt and equity recapitalization transaction, implemented via an English scheme of arrangement
  • SGB-SMIT, the power transformer manufacturing group, on the amendment and extension of its c. €630 million debt liabilities, including a significant equity injection from sponsor One Equity Partners, via the first English restructuring plan conducted by a Germany-headquartered business
  • Hong Kong Airlines on its successful US$6.2 billion debt restructuring, including the first use of an English restructuring plan in parallel with a Hong Kong scheme of arrangement 
  • Löwen Play, the German casino operator, on its debt for equity swap implemented via an English scheme of arrangement
  • DTEK, Ukraine’s leading privately owned energy company, on its US$2.3 billion bank and bond restructuring including various UK schemes of arrangement, consensual, and other liability management transactions
  • Smile Telecoms, the African telecommunications provider, on its English restructuring plan (the first to be conducted by a non-European company) facilitating the provision to the company of US$63 million of super-senior new money
  • The senior creditors committee in relation to the €1.9 billion debt and equity restructuring of Selecta, a Swiss-headquartered pan-European coffee and vending machine business
  • The private equity sponsor on the debt restructuring and sale of CarTrawler, a global travel technology solution provider
  • Thomas Cook, a global travel business, during its compulsory liquidation, in relation to its restructuring, refinancing, and the preparation of a scheme of arrangement to allow the implementation of a debt-for-equity swap
  • Savannah Petroleum plc in respect of its investment in, and acquisition of, Nigerian oil and gas assets of the Seven Energy group
  • The ad hoc committee of bondholders on the restructuring of Johnston Press plc
  • Bibby Offshore Services Plc, a British-based company that provides offshore and subsea services, in connection with its debt restructuring via a UK scheme of arrangement
  • PrivatBank, one of Ukraine’s largest banks, on the restructuring of certain of its notes, which was implemented via a UK scheme of arrangement
  • Avangardco, a leading Ukrainian agro industrial company, on the restructuring of its notes issued by its Cypriot subsidiary which was implemented via a UK scheme of arrangement
  • DTEK, Ukraine’s leading privately owned energy company, on its US$2.3 billion bank & bond restructuring including various UK schemes of arrangement, consensual, and other liability management transactions

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • Legal Practice Course, University of Law, 2014
  • Graduate Diploma in Law, Oxford Brookes University, 2013
  • M.A. in Studies in Global and Imperial History, Oxford University, 2012
  • BA in History, Oxford University, 2011