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Emma Riddle

Partner

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Emma Riddle is a partner in our international Finance practice, specialising in restructuring and insolvency.  

Emma has experience acting for creditors, debtors and other stakeholders in distressed situations. In recent years, Emma has focused on distress in the Energy sector, working on a wide range of transactions on the UKCS, as well as in Brazil, the Middle East and West Africa. Emma has experience in advising on the rights of bondholders and other stakeholders in securitisation structures and in advising on the insolvency aspects of capital requirements regulation. 

Other experience includes advising on distress in other regulated sectors, including law firm and accountancy firm insolvencies.

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Relevant experience

  • OSX Group, part of Eike Batista’s X Group, on the restructuring of c$2bn financial indebtedness
  • Premier Oil on the solvent restructuring of its interest in the Solan oil field and associated financing
  • UK Noreco companies on issues arising from the restructuring of Norwegian bond indebtedness
  • International oil independent on security and insolvency issues in relation to its Middle Eastern interests
  • Project finance lenders on the restructuring of indebtedness to protect from bank insolvency risk
  • Lloyds Bank and the administrators on the insolvency of RSM Tenon plc and the sale of its business to Baker Tilly
  • The administrators of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP on post-appointment issues
  • Ernst & Young on the joint receivers’ appointment to the owners of the Marriott real estate portfolio and the proposed subsequent sale of that portfolio.
  • The lending syndicate to companies in the Barracuda Pub Group on the implementation of a plan to restructure their debt and separate the property and trading groups.
  • A management team of a group in the building sector on the restructuring of its debt and equity.
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Education

  • 1999 - BA Hons, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, 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...
24/04/2023
Demystifying Bank Resolution
Whilst the events surrounding HSBC’s acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) demonstrated that the UK bank resolution regime worked well, regulators and firms will now be scrutinising resolution...
24/04/2023
Demystifying Bank Resolution
Whilst the events surrounding HSBC’s acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) demonstrated that the UK bank resolution regime worked well, regulators and firms will now be scrutinising resolution...
13/03/2023
Update to Silicon Valley Bank’s current position and what it means
We have been continuing to monitor the situation at Silicon Valley Bank since our Client Alert issued yesterday afternoon. Like the rest of the sector, we were relieved at this morning’s announcement...
12/03/2023
Silicon Valley Bank’s current position and what to do about it
Please refer to our latest publication Update to Silicon Valley Bank's current position and what it means for the most up-to-date guidance. The team here at CMS has been saddened by the collapse of the...
30/06/2021
Hurricane Energy – Court declines to sanction Restructuring Plan
Mr Justice Zacaroli has handed down his judgment in Hurricane Energy plc [2021] EWHC 1759 (Ch). Summary The Court declined to approve the cross-class cram down of Hurricane’s shareholders as part...
19/05/2021
Regis CVA revoked but Court rules against all but one of landlords’ grounds...
Mr Justice Zacaroli has handed down his judgment in Carroway Guildford (Nominee A) Limited and 18 others and (1) Regis UK Limited, (2) Edward Williams (as Joint Supervisor of Regis UK Ltd) and (3) Christine...
23/02/2021
Company voluntary arrangements (CVAs)
A CVA is a powerful formal restructuring tool that can be used by a debtor company to impose a compromise on unsecured creditors who will not compromise con­sen­su­ally. In 2020, the first full year of...
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...
17/09/2020
New Restructuring Tools
With the threat of COVID-19 to businesses, the UK Government has introduced new restructuring measures, having consulted on various options for several years. The accelerated introduction of new regimes...
01/07/2020
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020
This briefing note was originally published on 01 July 2020 and has been updated to reflect the law as at 13 October 2020. Introduction On 20 May 2020, the UK Government published the Corporate Insolvency...