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Rupert Cheetham

Rupert Cheetham has a broad practice involving restructuring, insolvency and general finance transactions. Rupert advises on fully consensual work-out refinancing transactions, restructuring procedures such as UK schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans and company voluntary arrangements (CVAs), and formal insolvency proceedings. Rupert acts for banks, funds and other financial institutions, as well as sponsors, corporates, directors and insolvency practitioners.

Rupert is recognised for Restructuring & Insolvency in the 2024 edition of The Legal 500 UK, where he is described as “very experienced and solutions-oriented” and lauded for being “a good leader to the team.”

In the UK, some commentators sounded the death knell to the restructuring plan, suggesting that the process would become overly challenging and complex post Adler, Petrofac and Thames Water, highlighting the current landscape as an inflection point that may take restructuring plans out of the reach of companies that would benefit from them the most.
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On 4 March 2024, Mr Justice Richards of the English High Court delivered a judgment (the Judgment) in relation to the sanction of the restructuring

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