Focuses on the finance aspects of cross-border and domestic financial restructurings, special situations funding and complex direct loans.
Represents credit funds, institutional investors, private equity funds and portfolio companies
Deep experience in a wide range of financings, including debt restructurings, direct loans, leveraged buyouts, securitisations and bank/bond structures.

Clare is a finance partner in the corporate team of Akin’s London office.

Clare specializes in advising on cross-border and domestic debt restructurings.

She has represented a number of private equity houses and financial institutions in a range of financing transactions, including restructurings, leveraged buyouts, and bank/bond structures.

Clare is recognized as a Rising Star in Restructuring and Insolvency by Expert Guides, and was named winner of Euromoney’s “Rising Star Awards Europe 2020” for Restructuring and Insolvency.

Representative Work

Advised Floatel International Ltd. and its subsidiaries (the Floatel Group) on its comprehensive, fully consensual balance sheet restructuring.*
Advised an ad hoc group of senior creditors of Caribbean mobile operator, Digicel, in relation to a potential restructuring of its $7bn of debt.*
Advised Syncreon Group Holdings B.V., and its affiliates, in its cross-border balance sheet restructuring involving approximately $1.1 billion of funded debt, including English schemes of arrangement and associated chapter 15 and CCAA recognition proceedings.*
Acted in a high-yield restructuring for majority holder of senior secured notes group in Four Seasons Health Care, the UK’s largest provider of care homes.*
Advised Pillarstone Europe LLP in its cross-border restructuring of Famar.*

Advised an ad hoc group of bondholders in the international restructuring of Edcon.*
Advised Charterhouse Capital Partners, as sponsor, in the cross-border restructuring of Bartec, an oil and gas related business.*
Advised Netcare Limited, the largest private hospital network in South Africa, in connection with the restructuring of their flagship English private hospital group, BMI Heathcare.*
Advised on the Chapter 11 and exit financing of GulfMark Inc.*
Advised on the refinance of credit facilities for Odeon Cinema as part of a bank/bond structure.*
Advised on the acquisition of a German pharmaceutical company by Elementis plc, one of the UK’s largest specialty chemicals business.*

*Matters handled prior to joining Akin Gump.