
Will McGarrigan

Will McGarrigan
Biography
Will is an associate in the Firm's Financial Restructuring and Insolvency group.
Will has experience advising distressed companies and insolvency practitioners in multi-jurisdictional restructuring and insolvency processes in relation to debt restructurings, schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans and security enforcement processes. Will has worked with a diverse range of clients, including distressed investors, private credit funds, banks and corporates.
Will joined White & Case as a trainee, gaining experience in the Firm's Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance team and the Firm's Tax practice in London. He also spent six months on secondment in our Asset Finance team in Dubai.
Experience
John Wood Group PLC
Representation of Dar Al-Handasah Consultants Shair and Partners Holdings Ltd. (Sidara), on its firm offer to acquire Scottish public limited company, John Wood Group PLC.
Petrofac
Representation of new money investors to Petrofac.
Light S.A.
Representation of Light S.A. – em Recuperação Judicial, a Brazilian energy generation and distribution business, in relation to the group's English scheme of arrangement which was used for the primary purpose of achieving international recognition of the company's court-supervised restructuring in Brazil.
Adler Group
Representation of Adler Group, one of Germany's largest real estate groups, on its successive financial restructuring exercises. The initial financial restructuring involved an amendment to the terms and conditions of €3.2 billion of senior unsecured bonds through English restructuring plan proceedings and the incurrence of €937.5 million of new money. The subsequent financial restructuring implemented a comprehensive recapitalisation that resulted in a significant debt reduction and maturity extensions alongside several liquidity-enhancing measures. Adler Group is one of Germany's largest landlords holding over 25,000 residential units, largely concentrated in Berlin and North-Rhine-Westphalia, and its pre-restructuring debt load totalled in excess of €6 billion.
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