Matthew Finnie
Associate
matthew.finnie@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Private Capital
Biography
- Advises on domestic and cross-border financial restructurings and debt resolution.
Matthew is a member of the financial restructuring group. His experience focuses on cross-border financial restructurings across a number of industries.
He advises creditors, companies, directors and officeholders on restructurings, distressed acquisitions, formal insolvency proceedings, consensual re-financings and workout strategies.
Matthew also has experience in insolvency litigation and has acted for a wide range of insolvency litigation funders in their assessment, acquisition and pursuit of claims in a distressed context, including claims relating to wrongful and fraudulent trading, directors' duties, contractual disputes and asset recovery.
Representative Work
- Cineworld: Counsel to an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the chapter 11 cases of Cineworld and its affiliates, the world’s second-largest movie chain, involving $4 billion in liabilities.
- VEON: Counsel to the VEON group, a multinational telecommunication services business, in relation to a scheme of arrangement to extend the maturity of certain USD bonds and other related matters.
- Noble: Counselt to an ad hoc group of creditors on the financial and corporate restructuring of the Noble group, a worldwide commodities supply chain and trading business.
- Folli Follie: Counsel to the ad hoc committee of creditors on the c. €500 million debt-for-equity restructuring of the Greek-listed company Folli Follie, involving advising on the implementation of a first-of-its-kind Greek Bankruptcy Code rehabilitation agreement requiring delivery of the opco and assetco structure to the creditors via a new corporate group.
- Teneo: Acted for Deloitte (now Teneo) as administrators on the bringing of c. £36 million of fraudulent and wrongful trading claims arising out of the insolvency of a large UK haulage supply company.
EducationLL.B. (Hons), University of Aberdeen, 2017
LL.B. (Hons), University of Aberdeen, 2017
Bar AdmissionsLaw Society of Scotland
Law Society of Scotland
