Anna Dawson

Primary Focus & Experience

Anna has experience acting on a broad range of complex cross-border financial restructurings, special situations, private debt transactions and insolvency matters. Anna’s clients include banks, distressed debt funds, other alternative credit providers, large corporates, private equity sponsors, management teams and insolvency practitioners.   

Prior to joining Milbank, Anna spent six months on secondment in Hong Kong and completed a secondment to the London office of Centerbridge Partners.

A selection of Anna’s experience includes advising:

• A private credit lender on a c.$130 million debt-for-equity restructuring and recapitalisation transaction involving a UK-based pharmaceutical services company, implemented through a fixed charge receiver appointment and enforcement sale. *
• The RCF and term loan lenders to Petrofac, a leading global service provider to the energy industry, in relation to its financial restructuring and the sale of parts of the group. *
• An oil and gas company in relation to its export credit agency backed facility obligations. *
• Cityfibre on the recapitalisation of its group via single class scheme of arrangement, including the preparation of the finance documents as part of the c.£2.3 billion new equity and expanded debt facilities package. *
• A large US based investment advisor in relation to the recovery of amounts under a UK receivables financing investment. *
• Both Farfetch and the administrators on the restructuring of the luxury e-commerce retailer involving a UK pre-pack administration process. *
• The ad hoc committee of bondholders on the recapitalisation of Haya Real Estate, a Spanish real estate servicing business, implemented via an English scheme of arrangement. *
• A bilateral lending bank in connection with the restructuring of loans to James Fisher & Sons plc. *
• A Dutch bankruptcy trustee on its director liability claims in a UK bankruptcy. *
• The co-ordinating committee of bank and fund lenders in relation to the £270 million debt restructuring of EnerMech, a global services company supporting the North Sea oil and gas business. *
• The RCF lenders on the attempted £1.65 billion restructuring of Thomas Cook Group plc including launching an English scheme of arrangement and seeking Chapter 15 recognition. *

*Matter completed prior to joining Milbank.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Pro Bono Recognition List of England & Wales, 2026, for work with Amicus, to help those facing a death sentence in the US, and with the Domestic Abuse Response Alliance (DARA).