Nayomi Skinner
Biography
Overview
Nayomi is an associate in the Firm's Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Group in London.
Nayomi has experience in relation to cross-border restructurings and insolvencies (including administrations, receiverships, schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans) and other special situations work. She has worked with a diverse range of clients, including creditor committees, banks, investment funds and office holders.
Nayomi is currently on secondment in the legal transactions team at BlackRock, advising on a combination of restructuring and private credit matters. Nayomi previously spent eight months from 2022 to 2023 on secondment to Arini Capital focusing on distressed credits and restructuring situations.
Prior to joining the firm, Nayomi was an associate in an international law firm where she spent six months on secondment in the firm’s Dubai office.
Experience
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.
Noble
Assisting with certain English law aspects of the Noble Group restructuring, including in respect of its US$3.5 billion debt-for-equity restructuring and the subsequent sales of its commodities trading business to Vitol.
Industrials business
Representation of a credit fund on the restructuring and sale of a German industrials business.
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.
Petra Diamonds
Representation of the ad hoc committee of bondholders of the US$650 million 2022 Notes in the financial restructuring of the diamond mining group, Petra Diamonds, with mines in South Africa and Tanzania.
Avianca Holdings, S.A.
Representation of Elliott Management as DIP lender in the Chapter 11 cases of Avianca Holding, S.A. and its affiliates.
Energy
Representation of the secured lender to a UK based independent power producer that had experienced financial distress and entered administration.
Investment Fund Matter
Assisting a fund and a top tier lending institution in connection with the entry into financing and security arrangements relating to certain entitlements arising in favour of a Cayman Islands SPV as a result of the restructuring of a major airline.
