Alan Gar

Alan represents lenders and financial institutions in enforcement actions, restructuring loans, standstill agreements, and insolvency procedures, including CVAs, administration, and schemes of arrangement involving distressed debt and security instruments. 

• Acted for the agent of a syndicate of banks on the refinancing and restructuring of an international airline group. 
• Acted for a banking syndicate on the restructuring of SAS Airlines. 
• Advised a leading commercial bank on the Cortefiel scheme of arrangement. 
• Advised a leading Bank on the restructuring of a European group and the amendment of its synthetic securitisation. 

With expertise in cross-border insolvency, Alan assists in asset recovery, director duties, international fund dissolution, and coordination of multi-jurisdictional restructurings involving complex civil litigation and creditor claims. 

• Advised a US fund on the acquisition of distressed debt and its enforcement in Europe and Asia as part of a global scheme (loan to own). 
• Acted for CIS bondholder clients on the breach and repayment of their bonds through an offshore holding structure in Bermuda. 
• Acted for US trade purchaser of a European packaging business out of a Spanish insolvency process. 
• Acted for CIS clients on the enforcement of bond debt and the (Bermudan) provisional winding up of an investment and retail bank holdco structure. 

Alan advises across a wide range of sectors on insolvency and restructuring issues, including company refinancing, director disqualification, recovery claims, retention of title, and the purchase or sale of debt. 

• Acted for a prominent retail group (with over 400 stores) on its financial difficulties, including its proposed company voluntary arrangement. 
• Acted for a leading provider of student accommodation in the UK on its restructuring of £1.2bn of debt including its standstill with lenders and the appointed administrators. 
• Acted for a fund on the Vinashin scheme of arrangement. 

Alan advises on insolvency and restructuring matters involving African jurisdictions, including cross-border asset tracing, creditor rights, enforcement of debt, and the coordination of receivership or liquidation across legal systems. 

• Acted for a West African commodities group on its standstill, refinancing and restructuring negotiations in West Africa, the UK and Switzerland.  
• Acted for a significant Chinese shareholder, bondholder and trade creditor on the insolvency of African Minerals Limited.  

Alan advises debtors, creditors, and stakeholders in the energy sector on restructurings and insolvencies, particularly across Africa and in cross-border mandates involving oil, gas, power, and renewables. 

• Acted creditor-side on the winding up and restructuring of a UK listed holdco on the restructuring of its mining assets/interests across the globe. 
• Advised a private equity sponsor on the restructuring of its gas-to-liquids investment.