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Timea Scholey

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English, Hungarian, German, French

Timea Scholey is a partner in the Restructuring and Insolvency team. Timea advises on both cross‑border and UK high profile restructurings, insolvencies and distressed situations, representing a variety of stakeholders, including banks, special situation investors, borrowers, insolvency practitioners and pension trustees.

Timea provides strategic advice relating to UK and cross-border contingency planning, enforcement, accelerated solvent and insolvent sales of businesses in distressed situations. She has a particular interest in the energy, travel & leisure and retail sectors. She has also extensively advised in relation to restructuring issues for pension schemes.

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Relevant experience

  • Rosebank – advised Equinor and the Equinor led joint venture with regards to Altera’s Chapter 11 process in the US, as part of the Equinor led JV’s development of the Rosebank oil and gas field.
  • CMBS restructuring – advised a US investment bank on the restructuring of a CMBS transaction.
  • Oil services company – advised an oil services company with operations in the UK and in Europe on its proposed restructuring plan.
  • Orbit Energy – advised the administrators of Orbit Energy with regards to complex and technical administration issues.
  • Virgin Atlantic - advised a significant creditor on all stages of the ground-breaking and complex Virgin Atlantic Airways restructuring which involved the first ever use of a UK Restructuring Plan.
  • Listed car retailer - advised the senior lenders on the £250m RCF they had made available to a listed national car retailer which encountered financial and regulatory difficulties.
  • NMCN plc – advised construction company Galliford Try as purchaser of the NMCN water business by way of a pre-packaged administration.
  • Oasis and Warehouse - advised the board on the group’s contingency planning and entry into administration and subsequently Deloitte (now Teneo) as the administrators on asset sales out of administration and various issues arising as part of the administration. 
  • Travel group – advised on the consensual restructuring of a travel group’s debt and security, including also a significant new money injection.
  • DTEK – advised the senior lenders in relation to the long term restructuring of c. USD 1.2bn debt of Ukrainian energy group DTEK.
  • House of Fraser – advised the trustees of the pension scheme as part of the House of Fraser group’s restructuring, involving a company voluntary arrangement and schemes of arrangement.
  • MeteoGroup – advised the international weather services provider, on its accelerated sale to a Swiss investment company.
  • Fairfield Energy Group - advised the Fairfield Group in relation to restructuring of USD 1.5bn debt and related oil and gas matters. 
  • King & Wood Mallesons LLP – advised the law firm and subsequently, its administrators.
  • Glitnir and Landsbanki – advised the bondholder committees on the restructuring and wind-down of the collapsed Icelandic banks Glitnir and Landsbanki.
  • Clara Pensions – advised the pension consolidation company for defined benefit pension schemes on various finance and security considerations.
  • Employers and trustees of defined benefit pension schemes - advised on various asset backed funding arrangements, escrow-type mechanics and other finance and security issues.
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Education

  • 2010 – Legal Practice Course, University of Law, London
  • 2009 – BA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, Oxford
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28/11/2023
Leveraged finance: handling an impending financial covenant breach
A forecast breach of a financial covenant is often an early warning sign that a business is not performing to plan. Unless self-help remedies are open to the borrower, lenders will have an opportunity...
12/01/2023
Companies in distress: directors’ duties and helpful tools
When a company is in financial difficulty, the responsibilities and duties of its directors can change, depending on the financial position of the company. There are scenarios in which directors must have regard to the interests of creditors and potentially even prioritise those over the interests of shareholders. If the applicable duties are not properly discharged, directors can face personal liability and/or dis­qual­i­fic­a­tion. The CMS briefing, Companies in distress: directors’ duties and helpful tools, outlines the risks for directors, practical steps that can be taken to avoid personal liability and the tools available to help with restructuring and rescue of companies in distress.
05/10/2022
The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act – consequences for...
The land registration elements of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act (“ECTEA”) came into force on 5 September 2022, 5 weeks after the new Companies House Register of Overseas Entities...
04/05/2022
A CMS Guide to Restructuring & Insolvency in Crypto
Given the changing landscape, we expect to increasingly encounter crypto assets in R&I situations and they have been in the spotlight as HM Treasury unveiled its plans to make the UK a global crypto asset technology hub and with the evolving Ukraine / Russia conflict. 
14/10/2021
Energy Supply Crisis - refresher on possible outcomes
The UK is currently facing an energy supply crisis. Wholesale energy prices have sky-rocketed in recent weeks with the regulatory price cap remaining unchanged. This has contributed to, as of October...
23/06/2021
Restructuring Plans and CVAs
Following a flurry of recent judgments handed down by the English courts, this note from CMS’ Restructuring & Insolvency team takes stock of what we have learned in relation to the key features and practical uses of a Part 26A Restructuring Plan and a Company Voluntary Arrangement for businesses aiming to address their financial difficulties.
26/01/2021
Brexit – Consequences for Creditors’ Enforcement Options
The UK left the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020, but it is only now, after the transition period (which ended on 31 December 2020) that creditors start grappling with the effect of Brexit on distressed...
24/11/2020
Aircraft finance and leasing in the pandemic and beyond - Moving out of...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought existential threats to the entire aviation ecosystem and has required considerable creativity, flexibility and commercial partnership between in­dustry par­ti­cipants...
13/10/2020
A new option for financially distressed companies: the new restructuring...
For many years, a financially distressed company unable to agree a consensual restructuring with its key creditors had only two formal options available to it under English law as part of seeking to...
11/03/2020
COVID-19 Challenges for the Aircraft Leasing Industry
The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a very dramatic drop in airline passenger numbers, particularly to areas identified as having many cases. The dramatic reduction in passenger numbers represents a profound...
13/01/2020
Pension Schemes Bill – additional hurdle for English law restructurings?
Pension Schemes Bill – Additional hurdle for English law restructurings? The intention was that the Pension Schemes Bill would enhance the Pensions Regulator’s powers to respond earlier when employers...