Christian Pilkington is a partner in the Financial Restructuring & Insolvency team in the Firm's Banking & Capital Markets group in London.

He has experience dealing with the full spectrum of insolvency practitioners and creditors, advising on all aspects of national and cross-border restructuring and insolvency work. In addition he has regularly advised directors of companies in financial difficulty, often with an international element. He has extensive experience working with overseas counsel and coordinating advice on cross-border restructuring and insolvency issues.

Clients recommend Christian in Legal 500 UK (2011), as being "a trusted adviser with technical and commercial strength" and in Chambers UK (2012) as being "very calm and unflappable," and for combining "extensive experience in the field" with being "very able technically”. Christian is also listed as a highly recommended FRI practitioner in Chambers Global (2011) and PLC Which Lawyer? (2011).

Recent Representative Transactions

• Currently advising Kaupthing hf in relation to its ongoing restructuring.
• Currently advising the co-ordinating committee of senior lenders of the Findus Group in relation to its ongoing restructuring.
• Advised Primacom, a leading provider of communications products in Germany, on its restructuring implemented pursuant to a UK scheme of arrangement.
• Advised the joint administrators of Peverel Limited, the holding company of the group managing 200,000 residential units throughout the UK.
• Advised the joint administrators of Powerfuel PLC, the entity behind one of the UK's most innovative "green power" projects.
• Advised The Wind Hellas group, the Greek telecommunications operator, on all aspects of its €1.8 billion restructuring, implemented by way of scheme of arrangement and 'pre-packaged' administrations.
• Advised British Vita in relation to the restructuring of its complex debt facilities and businesses.

Christian is an active member of several leading restructuring industry associations, including the Insolvency Lawyers' Association, R3, the Turnaround Management Association (UK and Global), INSOL International, and EHYA Insolvency Law Reform Committee.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 1999

Education
LLM, Commercial and Corporate Law, London School of Economics, 2003
LLB, University of Nottingham, 1995

Publications
Co-author, "Re Primacom Holding GmbH: To Scheme or Not to Scheme – That was the question.... Clarification on the Jurisdiction of the English Courts to Sanction Schemes of Arrangement for Overseas Companies,” International Corporate Rescue, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2012
Co-author, "Après Scheme," The Lawyer, 27 June 2011
Co-author, "Schemes of Arrangement - current hot topics and market trends," Lexology, 1 April 2011
Co-author, "Schemes of Arrangement in Cross-Border Restructurings – Issues of Jurisdiction and Recognition," International Corporate Rescue, March 2011
Co-author, "WIND Hellas: A complex restructuring in a global recession," Practical Law Company Journal, February 2011
Co-author of "Mourant & Co Trustees Limited & another v Sixty UK Ltd (in liquidation) & others: Release of Parent Company Guarantees by way of Company Voluntary Arrangement," International Corporate Rescue, December 2010
Co-author, "The Government's Restructuring Moratorium Proposal," International Corporate Rescue, September 2010
Pilkington et al, "UK Court Clarifies COMI in Dispute Involving U.S., Antigua," Turnaround Management Association's Journal of Corporate Renewal, September 2010
Co-author, "The aftershock: Lawyers prepare for credit crisis par dieu," Journal of International Banking & Financial Law, September 2010
Pilkington et al "UK Schemes of Arrangement: A Risk of Non-Recognition in Germany?" International Corporate Rescue, July 2010
Pilkington et al "Re La Seda de Barcelona SA: Release of Third Party Claims in the Context of UK Schemes of Arrangement," International Corporate Rescue, July 2010
Pilkington et al "Center of Main Interests' Considerations: Re Stanford," Turnaround Management Association's Journal of Corporate Renewal, August 2010
Co-author, UK Chapter of "The Restructuring Review 2008/2009" (Law Business Research publication)
"Schemes of Arrangement and the IMO Car Wash Decision – Valuation is Key," Financier Worldwide, December 2009
Contributor to "Buying Businesses In Bankruptcy," Financier Worldwide, November 2009
Contributor to "Debt for Equity Swaps," Financier Worldwide, September 2009
Co-author, UK Chapter of "The Restructuring Review 2007/2008" (Law Business Research publication)
Co-author, "Eurotunnel: A Landmark Restructuring," West Annual Review of International Insolvency 2009 (with Chris Mallon)
Co-author, "Time for (some) Chapter 11," International Finance Law Review, September 2008 (with Lynn Hiestand)
Co-author, "Exploring the Options in a Bankruptcy/Insolvency Scenario," UK Insolvency Client Strategies, Aspatore Books 2008 (with Lynn Hiestand)
"After the Turmoil of 2007, What Does 2008 Hold For SIVs?" Financier Worldwide, February 2008
"Chapter 15 Proves No Safe Haven for Offshore Hedge Funds," The Journal of Corporate Renewal, The Turnaround Management Association, January 2008
"With A Little Luck: Can EC Regulation and the Uncitral Model Law Achieve Mutual Recognition?" IFLR, June 2007
"COMI - The Controversy Continues…" International Caselaw Alert, May 18, 2007
"CVAs - A Restructuring Tool for the Future?" Recovery, December 2006
"Eurofood's COMI Ruling Has Global Implications," The Journal of Corporate Renewal, The Turnaround Management Association, July 2006
"A Step Backwards? New US Bankruptcy Law Amendments," Recovery Journal, Autumn 2005
"The Impact of Leyland Daf," Recovery, Spring 2005
"The European Credit Institutions Directive Boosts Certainty for EU's Troubled Banks," International Finance Law Review, June 2004

Languages
English

Citizenship
United Kingdom