
Matt Benson
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Capital Solutions
- Special Situations
- Preferred Equity & Hybrid Capital
- Crisis Management
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate
- Credit Funds
- Represents clients on restructuring transactions and special situations globally.
- Delivers bespoke solutions across the capital structure.
Matt advises clients on complex financial restructurings and special situations transactions. He has extensive experience counseling clients, exploring business opportunities and handling distressed situations across the capital structure in both public and private markets.
Having advised on some of Europe’s most high-profile restructuring transactions over the past decade, Matt’s practice encompasses complex balance sheet restructurings, loan-to-own transactions, liability management transactions and special situations financings.
- Ares: Counsel on various European direct lending recapitalisation, refinancing and exit mandates.
- Elliott Advisors: Counsel on various special situation financings and restructuring mandates involving some of Europe’s largest capital structures.
- BlackRock / HPS: Counsel on a confidential A&E and recapitalisation.
- Selecta: Counsel to the ad hoc group of first-lien bondholders in the novel €1 billion restructuring of Selecta Group.
- Intrum: Counsel to the ad hoc group of 2024 bondholders.
- McDermott International: Counsel to the ad hoc group of supporting senior creditors in relation to the global restructuring of the oil and gas EPC business by way of interconditional English restructuring plan and Dutch WHOA.
- Galapagos Group: Counsel to the ad hoc group of senior bondholders of the German industrials business, on the restructuring of the Group implemented via a distressed disposal through Luxembourg share pledge enforcement.
- Norske Skog: Counsel to the ad hoc group of bondholders on the restructuring of the paper manufacturer with global operations, implemented via distressed disposal through a Norwegian share pledge enforcement.
EducationLL.B., University of Technology Sydney
LL.B., University of Technology Sydney
Bar AdmissionsLaw Society of New South Wales, Australia
Registered Foreign Lawyer in England and Wales
Law Society of New South Wales, Australia
Registered Foreign Lawyer in England and Wales
- Member, Australian Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association.
- Member, Turnaround Management Association, Australia.
