Suzanne Thomson

Primary Focus & Experience

Suzanne specializes in large scale, complex cross border restructurings, and distressed and special situations. Suzanne has broad experience, advising debtor-side corporates and financial sponsors as well as a wide range of sophisticated creditors including banks, funds and noteholders. 

A selection of Suzanne's experience includes: 

• Advising shareholders of Ideal Standard in relation to an exchange offer in connection with a proposed M&A process.
• Advising Vue on its £1bn recapitalization which secured 100 per cent. lender consent for a new money investment and debt for equity transaction.
• Advising Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. and certain affiliates in their chapter 11 cases and restructuring negotiations in Europe, Australia and Asia-Pacific.
• Advising Oi S.A., a Brazilian telecoms group, on its US$20bn restructuring by way of a Brazilian recuperação judicial process and via parallel processes in the UK, the US, the Netherlands and Portugal.
• Advising majority senior secured creditors in connection with the ongoing administration and restructuring of a care homes group.
• Advising a senior secured creditor in connection with the administration of a UK power plant and exit from administration via company voluntary arrangement.
• Advising an investment fund on the restructuring of a vessel financing and the consensual enforcement and handover of vessels.
• Advising shareholders, debtors, creditor and strategic and special situations investment funds on a range of opportunistic and distressed investments and workouts across a variety of sectors.