24
Feb
The evolving role of LME’s & co-op agreements in Europe
This session will examine how LMEs and cooperation agreements are evolving across European markets, focusing on the legal, financial and regulatory factors shaping today’s restructuring landscape. The panel of experts will explore:
- What is driving the surge in LME activity across Europe and what cross-border complexities are emerging?
- How has private credit influenced the marked rise in LMEs?
- Which factors are behind the growing use of co-op agreements across Europe and what challenges are creditors encountering when using them?
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SpeakersDavid Orbay-Graves Senior Reporter Debtwire
HJ Woltery Co-Head of European Investment Team SVP
Celine Buttanshaw-Chan Partner PVTL Point
Rebecca Dixon Managing Director, Senior Counsel King Street
Christopher J. Howard Partner Gibson Dunn
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HJ Woltery, Mr. Woltery is Co-Head of the European investment team at SVP. Prior to joining SVP at the opening of the office in 2004, Mr. Woltery worked at Deutsche Bank’s Distressed Products Group.
Prior to PVTL Point, Celine specialised in restructuring and special situations as a senior associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. She was previously a Director at Reorg, the credit intelligence firm now known as Octus. Prior to that, she practised law at Hogan Lovells International, as well as Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Herbert Smith Freehills. She began her career in broadcast journalism as a producer and editor of news and current affairs programmes in 2006.
Celine holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Oxford (Keble College) and a graduate diploma in Law from the College of Law, London. She is a solicitor of England and Wales.
Rebecca Dixon is a Managing Director on the European Research team at King Street. She is based in London.
Prior to joining King Street in 2018, Rebecca was a Managing Associate on the Restructuring and Insolvency team at Linklaters.
Rebecca received a B.L. from the University of Bristol.
Chris is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganisation, and Finance practice groups.
Chris is a leader in English law restructuring and finance with 25 years of extensive international experience. He advises multinational corporations, investment and commercial banks, and financial sponsors on complex corporate restructurings and financing matters across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States.
Chris is highly regarded in Restructuring and Insolvency and Banking and Finance with consistent recognition by Chambers Global, Chambers UK and Chambers Europe (2007– 2025) as a Band 1 practitioner. While at his previous firm, he led the team that was awarded the IFT’s “Adviser of the Year” for the restructuring of Towergate in 2015. He was also named among The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” in 2009 and received the Society of Turnaround Professionals Restructuring Award for his work on the restructuring of WS Atkins in 2004. His expertise has also been recognised in The Legal 500 UK (2014 - 2019), and he has been consistently ranked as highly regarded in IFLR1000 (2014 - 2020).
Chris is a member of the New York Bar, Society of Turnaround Professionals, Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3), Financial Markets Law Committee and Turnaround Management Association.
Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Chris was a partner in the Restructuring and Finance practice groups at another major international law firm and led the European Restructuring practice. Chris is admitted to practice in England and Wales and New York.