Andrew Lockerbie

He leads the TLT Restructuring and Insolvency team. He is particularly well known and highly rated for his advice to lenders in respect of distressed loans and security, company boards in navigating financial difficulties with a view to corporate turnaround and rescue, and transactional matters involving the sale and purchase of businesses and assets in the context of insolvency processes.

Andrew advises a broad range of major financial institutions, funds, corporates and insolvency practitioners on banking, restructuring and insolvency related mandates, having been seconded to the restructuring division of a major international bank earlier in his career. He has strong connections across the London and National banking and restructuring market.

• Advising administrators of an English company in relation to the sale of a prominent hotel, including considering specialist licencing elements to the transaction.
• Advising a significant UK bank in relation to its distressed exposure to a large care home group, including providing strategic advice and considering specialist input around the intricacies of a care home insolvency.
• Advising a significant UK bank in relation to its distressed exposure to a large franchise customer, including providing specialist advice in relation to potential enforcement options.
• Advising a specialist fund in relation to its investment in a distressed English technology company, including strategic advice in relation to the proposed sale of the business via an administration sale.
• Advising a syndicate of lenders in relation to a development finance facility to an English group, including on sale of debt and full exit (at par) by lenders.