Adam Gallagher Partner

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Recognized as one of the leading restructuring advisors in the PRACTICE FOCUS , Adam Gallagher is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s European Restructuring Practice. With more than two Corporate decades of experience, Adam advises on complex, cross-border Private Equity Lifecycle restructurings, distressed refinancings and intercreditor Restructuring agreement disputes. He represents borrowers, directors, Strategic Alternatives shareholders and sponsors, banks, credit funds and bondholders, Banking and Credit Private Capital and Special Situations as well as pension trustees, liquidators, receivers and administrators. Adam has experience advising clients across the INDUSTRIES capital structure, including advising on restructuring situations involving large pension deficits. Adam has been recognized as Transportation one of the leading restructuring lawyers in the United Kingdom Technology for more than 15 years by Chambers, where he is described as a Retail lawyer who is “very determined” and “highly intelligent” and Consumer Products who “stands in his client’s corner and helps find a solution to Industrials and Manufacturing problems.” Infrastructure Business and Professional Services Recent non-confidential experience prior to Simpson Thacher includes representing:

Arcadia Group in connection with its multiple CVAs, pensions liability restructuring, subsequent administration and disposals; Steinhoff Europe on the structuring and implementation of return of value to its creditors owed approximately €7 billion;

www.simpsonthacher.com 1 RCF lenders to in light of the consequences of COVID-19 culminating in the first use of the new U.K. restructuring plan; Lenders to certain Intu Group propcos owed approximately £2 billion in response to the impact of COVID-19 on landlords to U.K. retailers; Getronics group on various matters across 27 countries leading up to its financial restructuring and sale; The court-appointed special managers and liquidator to certain Carillion group companies; The pension trustee as largest creditor to the Interserve group; Monarch Airlines on its restructuring; CMBS lenders to Toys-R-Us; House of Fraser on its sale to Sports Direct; and Esken Group on its acquisition of , refinancing and equity raise during COVID-19.

Adam is an active participant in the international restructuring community, and is a member of the International Insolvency Institute, American Bankruptcy Institute, Institute for Turnaround (IFT), as well as the New York Bar Association. A recognized leading practitioner, Adam has been included in The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” list, and named “Legal Advisor of the Year” by the IFT.

Adam received his law degree and post-graduate diploma from the University of Huddersfield. He is admitted to practice in and Wales, and New York.

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