Dr Anna Nolan

Counsel, Alston & Bird

Dr. Anna Nolan is counsel in the Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Practice in Alston & Bird’s London office. With over 10 years of experience, Anna assists a wide range of clients including hedge funds, special situations investors, trustees, providers of rescue and exit finance, issuers, sponsors, bondholder committees, administrators, and debtors with distressed transactions, conducting corporate, and financial restructurings and general insolvency matters. Anna is also Chair of TMA Europe’s NextGen Committee.

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Advised a wide range of stakeholders regarding the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, recent changes to the insolvency rules, and the Part 26A Restructuring Plan.
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 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.