Expertise

Seán maintains a broad practice involving diverse distressed and recovery situations in the restructuring and insolvency space, acting for IPs, funds, institutional lenders and clearing banks, and corporate boards and borrowers, at all stages of the cycle.

He is dual English and Irish qualified, with a wide range of sectoral experience in both jurisdictions, including financial services, retail, hospitality, real estate, energy, infrastructure, and offshore.

Seán has further successfully completed dedicated financial restructuring secondments to leading European and British investment banks in London.

Experience includes:

• appointed to advise the banking syndicate to the Caffè Nero group of companies in the context of the operational and financial restructuring of that debtor group.
• counsel to the secured lender to the Jamie’s Italian group of companies over the course of six months in the context of the refinancing, restructuring, and ultimate insolvent administration of the group
• advising Deloitte LLP (now 'Teneo') as the Joint Administrators of Regis UK Ltd. in respect of the trading administration of Supercuts (220 salons, c.1200 employees)
• advising the Joint Administrators of Lehman Brothers Limited in the context of Lehman group subordinated lender and noteholder distribution disputes in the High Court.
• advising Teneo as the Administrators of Sungard Availability Services, the UK’s largest business continuity, IT, co-location and data centre providers in the context of its complex trading administration and the manner of the sale of its business and assets located across 13 UK sites, commonly representing infrastructure key to the operation of the City's financial markets. 
• providing cross-border special situations advices to a leading Irish debt fund concerning its retail debt exposures in the UK
• advising one of the UK's oldest family owned businesses on the successful £150 + million corporate rationalisation, financial consolidation, and collateral restructuring of one its high street portfolio groups of companies, to include advice on the UK's pre-insolvency vulnerable transaction regime and the navigation of positions held by external funders to that portfolio group
• advising BDO LLP as Administrators of the guarantor lender Advancis LTD, trading as Buddy Loans, in the context of its financially regulated trading administration.
• leading on the provision of advice to a major clearing bank on the restructuring of CBIL (and other State backed lending scheme) debtor exposures.