Karen Wood

Highlights of Karen's recent experience include:

• Adviser to banks and bondholders holding distressed debt - specialising incomplex insolvency assignments and cross-border advisory work, in particularstrategic options advice to troubled businesses.
  
  
• Advisor to a group of bondholders providing assistance and support indeveloping a strategy for negotiations with a UK property development group inconnection with a proposed restructuring of the bonds.
  
  
• Debt £120m - development of a complex cross-border insolvency strategy inrespect of a manufacturer of leisure equipment for a syndicate of banks.
  
  
• Debt £60m - third largest global cable assembly & electrical power cordmanufacturer -business review leading to successful restructuring of banks'debt and refinancing package to cover needs of Group for next two to threeyears.
  
  
• Debt £200m - global manufacturer of a diverse range of products in tonumerous markets (e.g. plastic pipes & hoses, environmental sealingsystems) - led business review and assessed restructuring proposals for largesyndicate of banks, resulting in debt equity swap.
  
  
• $300m debt - European quoted manufacturer of PVC and associated products -advising US noteholders with focus on complex cross border liquidationanalysis.