Clare Cottle
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Financial Restructuring
- Special Situations
- Structured Credit
- Private Capital
- Focuses on the finance aspects of cross-border and domestic financial restructurings, special situations funding and complex direct loans.
- Represents credit funds, institutional investors, private equity funds and portfolio companies
- Deep experience in a wide range of financings, including debt restructurings, direct loans, leveraged buyouts, securitisations and bank/bond structures.
Clare is a finance partner in the corporate team of Akin’s London office.
Clare specializes in advising on cross-border and domestic debt restructurings.
She has represented a number of private equity houses and financial institutions in a range of financing transactions, including restructurings, leveraged buyouts, and bank/bond structures.
Clare is recognized as a Rising Star in Restructuring and Insolvency by Expert Guides, and was named winner of Euromoney’s “Rising Star Awards Europe 2020” for Restructuring and Insolvency.
- Advised Floatel International Ltd. and its subsidiaries (the Floatel Group) on its comprehensive, fully consensual balance sheet restructuring.
- Advised an ad hoc group of senior creditors of Caribbean mobile operator, Digicel, in relation to a potential restructuring of its $7bn of debt.
- Advised Syncreon Group Holdings B.V., and its affiliates, in its cross-border balance sheet restructuring involving approximately $1.1 billion of funded debt, including English schemes of arrangement and associated chapter 15 and CCAA recognition proceedings.
- Acted in a high-yield restructuring for majority holder of senior secured notes group in Four Seasons Health Care, the UK’s largest provider of care homes.
- Advised Pillarstone Europe LLP in its cross-border restructuring of Famar.
EducationLL.M., Nottingham Law School, England, 2005
L.P.C., Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, 2003
CPE, University of Sussex, England, 2002
B.A., University of Oxford, 2000
LL.M., Nottingham Law School, England, 2005
L.P.C., Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, 2003
CPE, University of Sussex, England, 2002
B.A., University of Oxford, 2000
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales