Profile details
Profil Lindsay Hingston
Lindsay is a partner specialising in restructuring and insolvency.
Lindsay advises across the full spectrum of stakeholders and processes on both domestic and cross-border restructuring matters. Her experience includes acting for borrowers, senior and junior lenders and noteholders, shareholders, insolvency officeholders and others on matters including in-court and out-of-court restructurings, liability management transactions and rescue financings, distressed M&A, intercreditor disputes, security enforcements, pre-packs and other formal insolvency appointments.
During her time at Freshfields, Lindsay has been seconded to work as a banking associate in the Financial Restructuring Group at Houlihan Lokey.
Lindsay has been ranked in Chambers UK since 2020 and was included in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2021 and GRR’s 40 under 40 in 2022. She is currently Vice President of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association Council and is a member of IWIRC (International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation). Lindsay is also one of the regular co-hosts of the Freshfields restructuring podcast, No Worse Off.
Mandate
Non-confidential deals and highlights include advising:
- an ad hoc group of creditors to Kemble, parent of Thames Water, in relation to the current financial situation of the group;
- the restructuring expert appointed in respect of McDermott’s Dutch WHOA proceedings;
- the original investor and second lien lender to UK fibre broadband provider Trooli, in connection with the sale of the group;
- Bulb Energy on its response to the energy crisis and, subsequently, the administrators of its parent Simple Energy;
- Revlon in connection with the cross-border aspects of its Chapter 11 case;
- Debenhams on all aspects of its administration including the sale of certain assets to boohoo, as well as its previous pre-pack administration and company voluntary arrangements;
- certain creditors of Intu in light of the administration of certain companies in the shopping centre giant’s group;
- ED&F Man in relation to its 2022 restructuring plan;
- BMI Healthcare, one of the largest private hospital groups in the UK, on its recapitalisation and the transfer of ownership to its major landlord;
- an ad hoc group of lenders to the holding company of Agrokor on their exposure to the group;
- the senior coordinating committee on the financial restructuring of the Biffa Group; and
- an ad hoc group of bondholders in respect of the recapitalisation of oil and gas company Sterling Resources.
Qualifikationen
Education
- St Peter’s College, Oxford University, UK (modern history and politics)
- Oxford Brookes University, UK (graduate diploma in law)
- BPP Law School, UK (legal practice course)