Hannah Cooper

Associate, Gilbert + Tobin

Hannah Cooper is a lawyer and legal project manager in Gilbert + Tobin’s restructuring and insolvency group. Her experience includes advising financial institutions, special situations groups and distressed debt funds, insolvency practitioners, creditors and debtors on restructuring, insolvency, workouts and distressed debt transactions. She also has considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.

Ms Cooper worked for leading restructuring teams at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in London during 2017 and 2018, and was involved in high-profile transactions, including the Seadrill Chapter 11 restructuring and the workout of BMI Healthcare. Since returning to Australia, Ms Cooper has worked on a number of prominent restructuring and insolvency matters, including Nyrstar, Blue Sky Alternative Investments, Wollongong Coal/Jindal Steel, Bluewaters and Valaris.

Ms Cooper is a member of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association and the Turnaround Management Association.