Address: London: Eighth Floor, Ten Bishops Square, London E1 6EG
Areas of Focus: Corporate; Leveraged Finance; Projects & Energy Transition; Capital Solutions; Finance
Biography: Chris represents hedge funds, private credit and direct lending funds, banks and special situations/opportunistic investors on a wide variety of stressed, distressed and non-distressed lending arrangements, debt situations and funding structures. Chris also advises creditors on the financing aspects of cross-border workouts and financial restructurings transactions.
Representative Work: - Advised private credit investors and banks on various acquisition and other lending structures – including senior and junior instruments, hybrid capital and preferred equity structures, unitranche lending, holdco instruments, fund finance, private placements and whole business securitisation structures. - Advised Carlyle on an €800m strategic preferred equity investment in Your.World, a leading European online solutions provider, alongside Ares. - Advised Intrum AB, Europe's largest provider of credit management services, on its investment partnership with Cerberus, and on various portfolio disposal transactions. - Advised Intrum AB on its agreement to sell a material portion of its investment portfolio across 13 jurisdictions to Cerberus for more than €1 billion. - Advised an ad hoc group of RCF lenders in the holistic restructuring through French sauvegarde proceedings of iQera, a leader in the acquisition and management of loans.
Credentials: Education: L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2012; LL.M., University College, London, 2011; M.A., University of Cambridge, 2010 Bar Admissions: Solicitor, England and Wales, 2014
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Insights: - Akin Advises Intrum on its Sale of Joint Venture Interests to Brocc (January 19, 2026): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/press-releases/akin-advises-intrum-on-its-sale-of-joint-venture-interests-to-brocc - Akin Advises Intrum on its Investment Partnership with Cerberus (April 17, 2025): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/press-releases/akin-advises-intrum-on-its-investment-partnership-with-cerberus - Akin Advises Carlyle on €800 Million Strategic Investment in Your.World (January 31, 2025): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/press-releases/akin-advises-carlyle-on-euro800-million-strategic-investment-in-yourworld - Special Situations: Addressing Post-LME Protections in 2025 (January 2025): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/articles/special-situations-addressing-post-lme-protections-in-2025 - Akin Promotes 22 Lawyers to Partnership (January 6, 2025): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/press-releases/akin-promotes-22-lawyers-to-partnership - Akin Advises on Comprehensive Recapitalization Transaction of Consolis Group (December 3 2024): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/press-releases/akin-advises-on-comprehensive-recapitalization-transaction-of-consolis-group - Akin Advises Intrum in €1 Billion Asset Sale to Cerberus (July 2, 2024): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/press-releases/akin-advises-intrum-in-euro1-billion-asset-sale-to-cerberus - Akin Advises on Financial Restructuring of Hurtigruten (May 17, 2023): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/press-releases/akin-advises-on-financial-restructuring-of-hurtigruten - Financial collateral and Brexit: a comparative perspective (June 22, 2021): https://www.akingump.com/a/web/p1c8joCoLUN2T6UCQcV8bD/2NmRAv/jibfl-financial-collateral-and-brexit-a-comparative-perspective-010621.pdf - Journal of Int’l Banking and Financial Law Publishes Akin Gump Article on Financial Collateral and Brexit (June 22, 2021): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/media-mentions/journal-of-intl-banking-and-financial-law-publishes-akin-gump-article-on-financial-collateral-and-brexit - Akin Gump Advises Majority Holder of Convertible Bonds on the Financial Restructuring of the Polarcus Group (April 30, 2021): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/press-releases/akin-gump-advises-majority-holder-of-convertible-bonds-on-the-financial-restructuring-of-the-polarcus-group - Akin Gump Advises Fairhold Securitisation Limited in £1 Billion Financial Restructuring (September 29, 2020): https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/press-releases/akin-gump-advises-fairhold-securitisation-limited-in-pound1-billion-financial-restructuring
