Anna Nolan Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

With over a decade of experience, I assist a wide range of clients including corporates, funds, lenders, bondholders, directors and insolvency practitioners with all stages of stressed and distressed, domestic and cross-border transactions. These include liability management exercises, enforcement strategies, M&A deals, refinancings, formal insolvency processes, and corporate reorganisations and restructurings from contingency planning and investment analysis stage to implementation. I help my clients find a consensual solution, although I also advise on schemes of arrangements, restructuring plans, CVAs and administrations. I’m a trusted advisor for clients considering innovative and complex deals. https://www.alston.com/en/professionals/n/nolan-anna Alston & Bird LLP is an international law firm with over 800 lawyers in 13 offices throughout the United States, Europe, U.K., and Asia.

London, United Kingdom

I was a senior lawyer in the Restructuring and Finance practice at Paul Hastings, based in the firm’s London office.Advised multiple award-winning funding vehicles of an international passenger and cargo airline, which issued two series of notes totaling $1.2 billion. The proceeds of the notes were loaned to the airline, its airport services business, and five of its key strategic airline partners. Advice was provided with defaults under the notes, under the underlying loans, and cross-border enforcement.Advised a distressed investor through its investment strategies regarding a large UK landlord with a complex capital structure.Advised credit funds regarding potential investment opportunities.Advised a lender on the enforcement of security, and the borrower in administration on the extension of the term of the administration, administrators’ duties in the context of a sale process, and refinancing discussions with the sponsor. Advised a manufacturer of auto parts regarding an orderly wind down of its UK business and appointment of administrators in the UK.Advised a U.S.-based bank as an agent for itself and a consortium of syndicated lenders in the U.S. and Canada in the receivership and administration proceedings in the UK and Canada involving an international media group.Advised the board of a market leader in outdoor mobile phone technology on its responsibilities and options for capital raising, securing buy-in from its PE sponsor, and on their role and responsibility in effecting an operational and balance sheet restructuring.Advised the board of directors of a UK company in the FCA’s allegations that the company had been promoting and operating airport car parking investment schemes unlawfully and in connection with a complex CVA.Advised an oil and gas company on a bond restructuring.

London, United Kingdom

I was involved in the special situations, restructuring, litigation and finance work (mostly creditor side work on large, complex transactions). Advised the credit arm of a leading private equity house in providing an approximately €1 billion credit facility to partially finance the acquisition of a Spanish non-performing loan portfolio involving the repackaging of the loan into notes and a repurchase agreement in relation to the notes.Advised the ad hoc committee of unsecured noteholders of a UK-based insurance broker and risk management advisor in its financial restructuring via toggle schemes of arrangement for secured and unsecured noteholder classes.Advised a global investment firm in its acquisition of a Swiss global investment bank and financial services firm’s U.S. distressed credit business.Advised two global investment firms on their joint acquisition of two high-asset portfolios from a UK-based financial services firm.Advised a London-based financial services firm as the incoming note trustee in its restructuring of its £1 billion distressed securitization structure.Advised an international investment firm on the proposed replacement of a special servicer and the identity of the controlling party over a large commercial mortgage-backed securitization of nursing homes.Advised an ad hoc committee of bondholders of an Indian multinational wind turbine manufacturer in its financial restructuring.I participated in qLegal Advice Clinic at Queen Mary University of London which provides advice to tech start-ups and entrepreneurs.

Trainee solicitor

Postgraduate, Law Of England And Wales

Activities and Societies: "Moot Court Competition organised by the Court of Justice of the European Union and the University of Cambridge".

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), European Law

PhD thesis on the effectiveness of the EU Merger Regulation. I published a book based on my thesis which was nominated in a competition.

Lpc, Corporate Law

Masters, Finance And Banking, 1St

Master Thesis: “Protections for the buyer in M&A transactions”. My Masters course (full-time) included the first 3-year degree. Anna.

Masters, Polish Law And Eu Law, 1St Diploma With Honours

Master Thesis: “Private antitrust litigation under European law with special focus on the United Kingdom”. Nominated in the competition.