Georgia Papathanasiou

Solicitor, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP

Georgia Papathanasiou has experience acting for major financial institutions, private equity sponsors, corporate advisory firms and large multinational companies in contentious and non-contentious matters related to complex refinancing, administration and liquidation, schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans and cross-border transactions.

Her representative transactions include:

· advising Ares on the refinancing of TalkTalk Telecom Group

· advising Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc on its subordinated debt litigation with various UK subsidiaries, concerning the relative ranking of over $10 billion of subordinated claims in the UK estates

· advising IGM Resins and its sponsor on their restructuring implemented using a UK scheme of arrangement

· advising the Chapter 11 plan administrator in the US$1.19 billion restructuring of the China Fishery Group, including in connection with the Part 26A restructuring plan

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Transfer schemes under section 900 of the Companies Act 2006 (or schemes of reconstruction and

Practice Notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Lois Deasey and Georgia Papathanasiou of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, considers the elements of a transfer scheme under section 900 of the Companies Act 2006 (or schemes of reconstruction and amalgamation), the similarities and differences between them and section 895 schemes of arrangement (or Part 26 schemes), the meaning of reconstruction and amalgamation and some deal analysis.

Restructuring & Insolvency