Graeme Levy is co-chair of the firm’s international financial restructuring practice. His practice focuses on noncontentious insolvency and restructuring matters. Graeme’s clients include lenders, insolvency practitioners and directors in financial difficulty in all aspects of debt finance, insolvency and corporate recovery work. He is also experienced in general banking matters with particular experience in media-related financings and asset-based lending.

He is a regular speaker on restructuring and insolvency at numerous legal and industry conferences. Graeme is co-author of Practical Insolvency Precedents, originally published in 1995, and a former contributing editor to Butterworths Company Law Precedents.

Representative Experience

• Advising on the first listed company’s Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) with no covering administration.
• Advising in leading reported cases involving judicial consideration of pre-pack administration sales (the first case to do so), floating charges in favor of “connected persons” and the so-called “deprivation principle”.
• Advising a large listed funds manager in relation to its high profile restructuring.
• Advising on the first listed telecoms company insolvency of the dot-com bubble and subsequently advising the company’s administrators regarding restructuring attempts and sales.
• Acting for insolvency practitioners in the run up to, and during, insolvency appointments.
• Advising boards of directors on their obligations to creditors and others during financial difficulties.
• Acting for stakeholders in mitigating counterparty solvency risks in complex structured solvent transactions, with a particular emphasis historically in media and real estate transactions.
• Acting for debtors and creditors regarding distress situations including security enforcement.