Gordon Davidson

Representative engagements include advising:

• RiseSun Real Estate Development Co., Limited and its subsidiaries in the restructuring of the group’s offshore dollar-denominated notes. One of the first real estate debtors in the region to complete its restructuring.
• Hilong Holding Limited as lead international counsel in a restructuring of Hilong’s offshore U.S. dollar-denominated notes.
• Travelex on its financial and operational restructuring.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners on the acquisition of the Azzurri Group.
• AlixPartners in its capacity as interim manager of the Abraaj Growth Markets Health Fund, L.P., a major holding of Abraaj Holdings, a Dubai-based private equity group.
• The controlling noteholder on the restructuring of Ballantyne Re plc, implemented by a noteholder Scheme of Arrangement in Ireland.
• GLAS in connection with the restructuring of Galapagos Holding S.A.
• A significant supporting creditor on the restructuring of Ocean Rig Group’s US$3.8 billion financial indebtedness implemented by four separate and interconnected Cayman Islands-law governed schemes of arrangement, provisional liquidations, along with Chapter 15 recognition.
• Mongolian Mining Corporation on the restructuring of its US$800 million financial indebtedness, implemented by parallel Cayman Islands and Hong Kong schemes of arrangement, provisional liquidation, along with Chapter 15 recognition.
• Relevant parties on, among other things, a combined New York exchange offer and Cayman Islands schemes of arrangement, various provisional liquidations in the Cayman Islands, purchases out of Chapter 11, solvent and insolvent liquidations and solvent topco shareholder schemes of arrangement.
• Wentworth in relation to all aspects of the Waterfall II Application of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration), concerning various issues relating to the distribution of the surplus in the LBIE estate.
• Telecolumbus on the implementation of its English scheme of arrangement with lenders to permit a German law statutory restructuring.
• The ad hoc committee of bondholders on the €350 million notes restructuring of Hungarian telecom operator, Magyar Telecom, implemented by an English COMI-shift scheme of arrangement.
• Norsk Tillitsmann/Nordic Trustee ASA on various Norwegian bond restructurings.
• The ad hoc committee of SSNs on the €1.2 billion debt restructuring of Greek telecoms operator Wind Hellas in 2010, involving a pre-pack sale out of administration and scheme.

*Some of the above matters were handled by Gordon prior to joining Sidley.