Ian Partridge Email & Phone Number

Partner in the Turnaround and Restructuring Services (TRS) team working closely with both management teams and stakeholders to provide a broad range of services to companies facing strategic, financial and operational challenges. A licensed Insolvency Practitioner and Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in undertaking business reviews, complex cross-border financial restructurings, strategic options analysis, contingency planning and insolvency implementation. Whilst on secondment to Lloyds Bank Commercial Finance I worked in the Structuring & Syndication Team which specialises in scoping, advising and structuring innovative ABL solutions for large and complex UK and pan-European facilities.Professional experience includes:Administrator of Farfetch Holdings Plc, the luxury online fashion marketplace retailer. Pre-pack administration.Administrator of Cineworld Group Plc, the former LSE listed parent company of the worlds second largest cinema chain. Pre-packaged administration to implement a wider restructuring alongside a US Chapter 11 filing.Advised the board of Ideal Standard, the multinational bathroom and sanitary ware group, on its US$900 million financial restructuring.  Planned for and implemented the pre-packaged administration of a major UK law firm and negotiated the sale of various residual assets whilst also managing the relationship with seven counter-parties to a TSA.Led the contingency planning for the board of a Singapore listed commodity trading conglomerate with $3.6bn of outstanding financial obligations.Advised on the US$4billion restructuring of Ocean Rig, an offshore drilling contractor. This role involved US and Cayman insolvency procedures.Assisting the Joint Special Managers of various entities in the Thomas Cook Group, a global £10B turnover travel and leisure Group, acting on behalf of the Official Receiver. Led the provisional liquidation of SeaMex Limited, a Seadrill JV that owned and operated five jack-up drilling units in the Gulf of Mexico. Successfully negotiated the sale of the business and assets of the group.Led the provisional liquidation of the Markel CATCO reinsurance group and supervised the financial restructuring via a Bermudian Scheme of Arrangement.Advised the Malaysia Airlines group on its global restructuring, including the first use of a UK scheme to reduce liabilities under aircraft leases.Recognised in INSOL International’s 2022 Young Practitioner Spotlight and the Global Restructuring Review 2022 as a “rising star” in the global restructuring and insolvency market.

Listed skills include Corporate Recovery, Restructuring, Asset Based Lending, Finance, and 4 others.