Lindsay is a partner specialising in restructuring and insolvency.
Lindsay advises across the full spectrum of stakeholders and processes on both domestic and cross-border restructuring matters. Her experience includes acting for financial creditors, borrowers, insolvency officeholders, pension trustees and others on matters involving restructuring plans, schemes of arrangement, company voluntary arrangements, security enforcements, pre-packs and other formal insolvency appointments, intercreditor disputes, out-of-court restructurings and distressed M&A. Recent high-profile mandates include acting for Bulb Energy on its response to the energy crisis, Revlon on the international aspects of its Chapter 11 case, and creditors to various of the Intu group companies.
During her time at Freshfields, Lindsay has been seconded to work as a banking associate in the Financial Restructuring Group at Houlihan Lokey.
Lindsay is ranked in Chambers UK and was included in Global Restructuring Review’s 40 Under 40 2022 and The Lawyer’s Hot 100 for 2021. Lindsay has been listed as Rising Star in Legal Media Group's Expert Guides since 2021. She is a current member of the ILA Council.
Non-confidential deals and highlights include advising:
- an ad hoc Group of RCF lenders in respect of Dutch bike manufacturer Accell;
- an ad hoc group of creditors to Kemble, parent of Thames Water, in relation to liquidity and restructuring options and response to the Thames Water 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;
- 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;
- certain creditors of Intu in light of the administration of certain companies in the shopping centre giant’s group;
- Cube Infrastructure, original investor and second lien lender to UK fibre broadband provider Trooli, in connection with the sale of the group.
- ED&F Man in relation to its 2022 restructuring plan;
- BMI Healthcare, one of the largest private hospital groups in the UK, on its recapitalisation and the transfer of ownership to its major landlord;
- House of Fraser on its schemes of arrangement;
- Monarch Airlines on the completion of its strategic review and restructuring programme, and its acquisition by Greybull Capital in 2014, and its further recapitalisation in 2016;
- the senior coordinating committee on the financial restructuring of the Biffa Group; and
- an ad hoc group of bondholders in respect of the recapitalisation of oil and gas company Sterling Resources.
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