Giles Boothman

Giles is a partner and the global head of Ashurst LLP’s restructuring and special situations group and is based in London. Over the last 20 years, he has accumulated extensive experience in acting for distressed companies, secured lenders, alternative investment funds and other major stakeholders in distressed businesses in almost every industrial sector and has a strong track record of working both on large, complex domestic transactions as well as institutional situations, a number of which have involved cross-border challenges. Giles has particular expertise in acting on debt control situations both for alternative investment funds and corporates. He has also acted on multiple loan portfolio acquisitions for distressed funds.