Abigail Beardsworth
Associate
abigail.beardsworth@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Private Capital
Biography
- Advises on domestic and cross-border financial restructurings.
Abigail Beardsworth is a member of the financial restructuring group. Her experience focuses on debt restructurings within the U.K. and Europe, across a number of industries.
Abigail trained and qualified with Akin in 2021.
Representative Work
- GenesisCare: Counsel to an ad hoc group of unaffiliated lenders on a potential restructuring or recapitalisation of GenesisCare, a global healthcare provider specialising on cancer treatment.
- intu Metrocentre: Counsel to the ad hoc committee of holders on the restructuring of £485 million in notes issued by intu Metrocentre Finance plc against the intu Metrocentre shopping centre and adjacent retail park in the United Kingdom.
- Nordic Aviation Capital: Counsel to the private placement noteholders on the chapter 11 restructuring of the group’s $6 billion in debt.
- VEON: Counsel on all aspects of its liability management exercise involving its USD and RUB bond issuances.
- Noble: Counsel to the ad hoc group of senior secured noteholders in relation to the restructuring of over US$1.5 billion of liabilities of Noble’s commodities trading business, involving security enforcement and a debt-for-equity swap.
EducationL.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2019
LL.M., King's College, London, 2018
B.A., University of Oxford, 2017
L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2019
LL.M., King's College, London, 2018
B.A., University of Oxford, 2017
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales
