Nayomi Skinner
Biography
Overview
Nayomi is an associate in the Firm's Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Group in London.
Nayomi has experience in relation to debt restructurings, cross-border insolvency issues, administrations and schemes of arrangement. She has worked with a diverse range of clients, including creditor committees, banks and investment funds.
Prior to joining the firm, Nayomi was an associate in an international law firm where she spent six months on secondment in the Dubai office.
Experience
Petra Diamonds
Representation of the ad hoc committee of bondholders of the US$650 million 2022 Notes in the financial restructuring of the diamond mining group, Petra Diamonds, with mines in South Africa and Tanzania.
Avianca Holdings, S.A.
Representation of Elliott Management as DIP lender in the Chapter 11 cases of Avianca Holding, S.A. and its affiliates.
Energy
Representation of the secured lender to a UK based independent power producer that had experienced financial distress and entered administration.
Investment Fund Matter
Assisting a fund and a top tier lending institution in connection with the entry into financing and security arrangements relating to certain entitlements arising in favour of a Cayman Islands SPV as a result of the restructuring of a major airline.
