Expertise

Mahnvir is based in our London office and has significant experience of financial restructurings in the UK and internationally. He advises banks, funds, corporate debtors, directors, shareholders, insolvency practitioners, agents/ security trustees and pension scheme trustees in relation to all aspects of restructuring, insolvency, banking and general finance matters.

Mahnvir worked for many years in the Restructuring and Insolvency teams at market leading international practices in London and has had secondments at Deutsche Bank, Barclays Bank and Reckitt Benckiser.

Mahnvir has worked on numerous complex contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters for both debtors and creditors. As well as providing support and advice to boards of directors during difficult trading circumstances, he has extensive experience of restructuring large syndicated facilities as well as SME bilateral facilities and ancillary facilities, leveraged and structured debt financings and advises on distressed debt trading and distressed mergers and acquisitions.

What problems do you help clients with?

I help support boards of directors who are under pressure to operate their businesses in distressed periods whilst also complying with their duties to stakeholders. This involves providing clients with day-to-day support and in particular when it comes to dealing with financial creditors.

I similarly help financial creditors when it comes to analysing and assessing their exposure to borrowers with a view to maximising returns or mitigating any downside risks.

I advise businesses and creditors in the preparation and evaluation of contingency planning options and put together analyses, advice and documentation for corporate reorganisations, workouts, balance sheet restructurings, refinancings and distressed disposals/ acquisitions.

Experience

  1. Advising the board of directors of Cordant Plc, including in respect of contingency planning, negotiations with creditors, potential business and asset sales and preparing documents for administration filings.
  2. Advising international financial bonding institutions in respect of their exposures to, and in relation to the restructuring of, the Interserve/ Tilbury Douglas Construction group of companies.
  3. Advising key creditors and the subsequently appointed administrators of Oakam Limited (a digital micro-finance lender).
  4. Advising a key creditor and the subsequently appointed administrators of a Midlands-based construction company.