Michael advises on complex financial restructurings, with a focus on cross-border debt restructurings and debt finance transactions. His clients include institutional investors and sophisticated credit funds, often in ad hoc groups. In 2025, Michael was shortlisted as a Future Leader by Global Restructuring Review.
Michael has advised on complex consensual and non-consensual cross-border restructurings and formal insolvencies across a number of different sectors, including utilities, commodities, energy, healthcare, transportation, and retail.
- Advising an ad hoc group of Class A and super-senior creditors holding over £16 billion in the recapitalisation of Thames Water, the UK's largest water and wastewater company.*
- Advising an ad hoc group of creditors holding over $2 billion of senior secured debt in distressed securitisations in the transportation sector.*
- Advising Fortenova Group, a food producer and retailer in Croatia, on issues arising from the existence of sanctioned debt and equity holders in its capital structure.*
- Advising the creditors' committee to NMC Healthcare Ltd on its over USD 7 billion restructuring by way of the first ever administration and deed of company arrangement in Abu Dhabi Global Markets
- Advising Codere SA in relation to its second scheme of arrangement of NY law-governed notes, including the successful defence of a challenge to the scheme on class and fairness grounds
- Advising UK retailer Matalan on its £50m CLBILS liquidity raise and associated English scheme of arrangement
- Advising Prosafe SE on its restructuring by way of a Singapore schemes of arrangement, parallel Norwegian reconstruction process and recognition procedures in various jurisdictions
- Advising the coordination committee of senior secured lenders in relation to a reserve-based lending facility to a multinational oil & gas exploration company
- Advising an alternative investment manager, as mezzanine lender, in relation to the financial restructuring and sale of a household name UK hotel group
- Advising the coordination committee of senior secured lenders in relation to the $2bn Nyrstar restructuring implemented via a mix of consensual arrangements and English schemes of arrangement
- Advising the Official Receiver and Special Managers of British Steel on the sale of the business and assets to Jingye Steel and Iron
News and client work
Contact details
- Clifford Chance, London
- +4420 7006 1154
- Email me
Career & qualifications
- University of Cambridge (BA, MA) 2016
- University of Cambridge (LLM) 2017
- BPP (LLM) 2018
- Joined Clifford Chance 2018
- Secondment to Standard Chartered Bank (Financial Markets Legal) 2019
- Rejoined Clifford Chance 2026
Professional bodies
- Member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association