A counsel in the European Restructuring Department, Patrick advises various stakeholders on complex consensual and non-consensual cross-border restructurings and special situations transactions.

Patrick’s recent representative experience includes:

Graanul Invest, a leading European producer of sustainable wood pellets, on its amendment and extension transaction with respect to its €630 million of senior secured notes and €100 million super senior RCF
Kem One, a leading European chlorovinyls producer, on the negotiation and execution of a new €200m financing
An ad hoc group of bondholders of Consolis, a leading provider of precast concrete solutions, on its consensual recapitalization
An ad hoc group of secured and unsecured creditors of Digicel Group, the leading provider of mobile phone networks and home entertainment services in 25 markets across the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific, in its restructuring of over $5.4 billion of debt
Fortenova Group, a food producer and retailer in Croatia and the surrounding region, on a significant recapitalisation transaction
Nordic Trustee AS, acting on behalf of the DOF Subsea bondholders, in a restructuring of the financial indebtedness of DOF ASA and its subsidiaries
Noble Group, a leading commodities trading business in Asia, in relation to the deleveraging and reorganization of its TradingCo business resulting in a debt for equity swap of approximately $1bn of financial indebtedness, implemented by way of a share pledge enforcement
DeepOcean in relation to its financial restructuring and wind down of its cable laying and trenching business, implemented by way of three parallel restructuring plans under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006, including the first use of the cross-class cram-down mechanism under the legislation
Galapagos, a leading manufacturer of heat exchangers and cooling systems, in relation to the contentious financial restructuring of over €1 billion of financial indebtedness, implemented through an enforcement sale in Luxembourg
Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentación, S.A., a leading Spanish budget supermarket chain in relation to its comprehensive recapitalization transaction