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Successful completion of financial and corporate restructuring of Mriya Agro
29 August 2018
Celine Buttanshaw
Senior AssociateLondon
Email celine.buttanshaw@hoganlovells.com
Phone +44 20 7296 2852
Fax +44 20 7296 2001
LanguagesEnglish
Practice groupFinance
Celine Buttanshaw is based in London and is part of the business restructuring and insolvency team.
Celine focuses on debt restructuring and reorganizations including contingency planning and options analysis in complex cross-border and emerging market restructurings. She has experience representing buy side investors, bondholder committees and investors interested in distressed situation. She has also represented a range of clients including bank creditors and distressed corporates with debt trades, participations and acquisitions in addition to advising on refinancing and restructuring transactions, in a range of industries including agricultural, consumer, care home, oil and gas, real estate and projects.
Education and admissions
Education
Graduate Diploma in Law, The University of Law
Accelerated Legal Practice Course, BPP University Law School, (commendation)
M.A. (Oxon), University of Oxford, English Keble College
Bar admissions and qualifications
Solicitor, England and Wales
Representative experience
Mriya Agro – advising the senior noteholder committee in the restructuring of this Ukrainian agricultural company.
Interpipe: Acting for the largest creditor in the on-going restructuring of this Ukrainian steel pipe manufacturer.
Lemtrans: assisting a U.S. based hedge fund in the acquisition and successful restructuring of approx. US$150m of non-performing loans backed by railcars in Ukraine.
UkrLandFarming – advised the noteholder committee in the re-profiling of senior notes issued by these Ukrainian agricultural companies.
ATU - advising the lead investor in the loan to own of A.T.U, involving a new money investment effected through consent solicitation and third party financing.*
Harkand - advising the ad hoc committee of bondholders, on a restructuring of bonds and an options analysis in advance of the administration of several subsidiaries.*
Magnolia Portfolio - advised the lenders on a refinancing of a portfolio of care home facilities.*
Njord Partners and Goldman Sachs Special Situations - advising on EUR25m debt investment to a Portuguese cabling company to refinance debt and provide working capital.*
Norshore Atlantic - advising ad hoc committee of bondholders on restructuring of US$150m bonds involving sale and leaseback of a multipurpose drilling vessel.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
