Samantha Poulton
Managing Senior Associate
30th Floor, North Tower, Beijing Kerry Centre, 1 Guanghua Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100020
+86 10 8519 0011
50th Floor, Central Plaza, 18 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
+852 2521 5621
Room 4605, Park Place, 1601 Nanjing West Road, Jing An District, Shanghai, 200040
+8621 6321 1166
Suite 2405, 24/F, SCIA Tower, Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518000
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Managing Senior Associate
Sam specialises on transactional, non-contentious restructuring work across multiple sectors, with particular expertise in energy and education. She advises insolvency practitioners, lenders and buyers on restructuring and refinance strategies, asset sale and purchases and the implications of insolvency processes.
Sam is a senior lawyer in the Restructuring practice experienced in advising lenders and insolvency practitioners on a wide range of restructuring and insolvency matters across multiple sectors. She works alongside financial advisers to develop practical and achievable contingency plans and restructuring strategies for financially distressed entities, with a specialism in transactional business and asset disposals. Sam also has significant experience in assisting lenders with options analysis and implementation of security enforcement and asset disposals, and advises purchasers of business and assets from insolvency practitioners out of administration.
Sam's advisory work includes advising on and the implementation of complex turnaround and restructuring transactions by those facing operational and financial distress. Sam has significant experience working across all sectors but has a particular focus and expertise in the energy, education, construction and manufacturing sectors.
Managing Senior Associate
Brian is an experienced commercial litigator with experience of international disputes across a variety of sectors, including real estate, mass claims and group proceedings, and the aviation industry.
Associate
Thatishi is an admitted Attorney specialising in construction, infrastructure, energy and mining law, with experience advising clients on complex construction and commercial disputes, domestic and international adjudications, arbitrations and litigation under various standard form contracts including FIDIC and JBCC contracts
Associate
Thomas is a construction lawyer specialising in international arbitration and project advisory, with a focus on large-scale energy, infrastructure, and construction projects.
Account Director
As a member of the Vario Account Management team, Tom meets and interviews candidates, and liaises with clients to deliver the right Vario solution. Tom is dedicated to ensuring that the process of recruiting talented lawyers into Vario assignments is as smooth and supportive as possible.
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