Jat Bains

Jat is head of the restructuring and insolvency group. He specialises in a range of debt finance transactions, acting for credit and special situations funds, corporate clients, sponsors, bondholders and senior and mezzanine lenders in relation to, amongst other things, workouts and restructurings, and real estate finance.

He has worked on several domestic and international private and public deals. His international finance experience also includes a secondment to Italy, where he assisted a local firm with the English law aspects of a securitisation and refinancing relating to a major Italian airport company.

Jat’s restructuring experience includes a secondment to the restructuring group legal team at a global financial institution, where he was involved in multibillion dollar restructurings.

Jat is a member of the Institute for Turnaround and is a contributing editor of the ICLG Restructuring and Insolvency series.

Jat is a partner champion of our REACH (race, ethnicity and cultural heritage) staff network, a forum for networking and peer support between ethnic minority staff and allies.