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Christopher Poel

Christopher Poel

Senior Associate

Senior Associate
Christopher Poel

Christopher Poel specialises on cross-border and complex restructurings and formal insolvencies. He regularly acts for lenders (funds, banks and investment managers), borrowers, issuers, shareholders, state/government entities and insolvency practitioners.

Christopher's work covers a wide range of products, sectors and jurisdictions.

  • Advising the second lien lenders to HC Starck on its financial restructuring
  • Advising an ad hoc committee of noteholders and new money lenders to the Abengoa group on the global restructuring of the group's c. EUR€14 billion of financial indebtedness (using an English CVA, US Chapter 11 and Spanish homologation
  • Advising the Co-operative Bank on all aspects of the successful completion of its 2017 restructuring and recapitalisation
  • Advising the Ministry of Commerce and Investment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in respect of the formulation of a new comprehensive insolvency law.
  • Advising the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency on the drafting and implementation of a new financial institution resolution law.
  • Advising CBR Fashion Group and its sponsor EQT in respect of the amendment and extension of its senior credit facilities via an English scheme of arrangement
  • Advising the Drydocks World group on its proposed debt restructuring and reorganisation by way of parallel contested CVA proceedings in Dubai and scheme of arrangement proceedings in England
  • Acting for Staples Inc. in respect of the sale of its UK operations to Hilco Capital Limited

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Career and qualifications

  • Queens' College, Cambridge (MA, History) 2011
  • Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2015
  • Joined Clifford Chance 2022

Professional bodies

  • Member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association