As the economy began to show signs of overheating during the peak of the credit boom between 2005 and 2007, many insolvency advisers were predicting the next big thing would be a wave of increasingly complex restructurings - accompanied by a frenetic round of debt trading. Accordingly, many of the funds and investment banks active in the sector set about bolstering their restructuring teams. Andrew Wilkinson's 2007 move from the leading London restructuring team of US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, which he built up during the late 1990s and early part of the decade, to head up Goldman Sachs' European restructuring advisory arm was only the most high-profile of a series of such moves.
November 25, 2009 at 06:01 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
The London Approach is long buried. Alex Aldridge investigates the uncertain restructuring scene that has taken its place, buffeted by turbulent markets and inhabited by struggling lenders and complex capital structures
As the economy began to show signs of overheating during the peak of the credit boom between 2005 and 2007, many insolvency advisers were predicting the next big thing would be a wave of increasingly complex restructurings – accompanied by a frenetic round of debt trading.
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