Giles Boothman

Giles Boothman is a partner in the restructuring and special situations practice.

Giles is the global head of Ashurst's restructuring and special situations team and is based in London. Over the last 20 years, he has developed expertise in acting for distressed companies and for lenders and stakeholders to distressed businesses in almost every industrial sector, and has a strong track record of working both on large, complex domestic transactions as well as institutional situations. A number of these situations have involved cross-border challenges.

He is particularly experienced in acting on complex debt control situations both for distressed funds and debtors. He has also acted on multiple loan portfolio acquisitions for distressed funds.