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Chris Norman

Chris Norman

Senior Associate

Senior Associate
Chris Norman

Chris Norman is a Senior Associate in Clifford Chance's Restructuring and Insolvency (R&I) Practice in London. He specialises in advising creditors, debtors, shareholders, insolvency officeholders and other stakeholders in relation to restructurings and insolvency related matters across the globe, with a particular focus on complex, cross border restructurings in Europe and Africa.

Relevant experience includes advising:

  • a consortium of lenders to Eskom regarding its restructuring
  • a major creditor to the Signa Group in respect of valuation realisation strategies
  • senior lenders to Anacap in relation to the restructuring of its financial debt
  • certain senior lenders to Vroon, a Dutch shipping group, in relation to the group’s restructuring via a Dutch WHOA and English scheme
  • the RCF lenders to Veon, the Dutch headquartered telecoms company, in relation to issues arising out of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
  • HSBC on its acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited
  • an ad hoc group of noteholders on the restructuring of Intu PLC
  • investors in Hertz' European rental car asset backed securitisation structure in connection with the Hertz US group Chapter 11 filing and the restructuring of the Hertz International Group
  • Aercap on the debt for equity restructuring of Norwegian Air Shuttle
  • HMG in relation to Flybe Limited
  • potential administrators to a large, UK retailer on a restructuring contingency plan
  • the senior lenders to Carillion PLC on its attempted restructuring and subsequent insolvency
  • the senior lenders to Edcon, Southern Africa's largest non-food retailer, in relation to its financial restructuring
  • an ad hoc committee of noteholders and new money lenders to the Abengoa Group on the global restructuring of the group's c. EUR€14 billion of financial indebtedness (using an English CVA, US Chapter 11 and Spanish homologation)
  • Cell C, the South African mobile network, on its financial restructuring
  • the senior lenders to the International Bank of Azerbaijan on its debt restructuring

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