Lindsay Hingston
About
Lindsay is a restructuring partner and heads our London restructuring team. She advises clients across the capital structure on complex domestic and cross-border restructurings, liability management exercises and insolvency matters.
Her clients include corporates, financial sponsors, banks, credit funds and insolvency officeholders navigating multi-jurisdictional financial distress. Her experience spans pioneering restructuring plans, distressed M&A, rescue financings, enforcement-driven situations and formal insolvency processes. She works cross-sector with particular experience in retail, infrastructure and financial services.
Lindsay’s transactional capabilities are enhanced by hands-on investment banking experience gained during a secondment to the Financial Restructuring Group at Houlihan Lokey.
Highly regarded in the market, Lindsay is President of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association, consistently ranked in Chambers UK, and has been featured in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 and Global Restructuring Review’s 40 Under 40. She is a regular speaker at industry events and conferences, and has published extensively.
Lindsay’s non-confidential deals and highlights include advising:
- German fibre provider Deutsche Glasfaser on all aspects of its recapitalisation (ongoing);
- Swiss pharmaceuticals company Idorsia on its holistic restructuring and refinancing involving a new money facility and bond exchange;
- an ad hoc Group of RCF lenders in relation to Dutch bike manufacturer Accell;
- the parent company of Thames Water and certain of its creditors in relation to the regulated group’s restructuring plan;
- Freshfields partner Michael Broeders in his capacity as the restructuring expert appointed in respect of McDermott’s Dutch WHOA proceedings;
- certain senior secured creditors in relation to the JBF RAK debt restructuring implemented through an onshore UAE bankruptcy process;
- Bulb Energy on its response to the energy crisis and, subsequently, the administrators of its parent Simple Energy;
- Cube Infrastructure, original investor and second lien lender to UK fibre broadband provider Trooli, in connection with the sale of the group;
- Revlon in connection with the cross-border aspects of its Chapter 11 case;
- Debenhams on all aspects of its administration including the sale of certain assets to boohoo, as well as its previous pre-pack administration and company voluntary arrangements; and
- certain creditors of Intu in light of the administration of certain companies in the shopping centre giant’s group.
Lindsay Hingston
100 Bishopsgate
London EC2P 2SR