KatieHiggins

Katie Higgins has extensive experience advising companies, financiers, insolvency practitioners, investors, and directors on restructuring and insolvency matters. She also advises companies and financiers on a wide variety of debt and structured capital markets transactions. Katie is consistently recognized as a leading insolvency, restructuring, and finance lawyer by legal directories.

Some of Katie's recent transactions include acting for the largest single creditor in the Virgin Australia administration; a large medical imaging diagnostics company in the restructuring of a A$260 million facility provided by Dignari Capital; the administrators of Topshop/Topman, Payless Shoes, and American Apparel; the Insurance Commission of Western Australia in the $1.8 billion settlement of the Bell Group liquidation proceedings; Electricite de France in relation to the Paladin Energy administration; Peabody Energy Corporation in the Australian aspects of its U.S. chapter 11 filing and financing associated with its emergence from chapter 11; a major investor and financier in the administration of Aussie Farmers Group; and a key shipper and owner of WICET (Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal) in the 2018 restructure of WICET's senior debt facilities.

Katie's recent transactions also involve a number of debt financing matters, including acting for Hornblower Group in the financing of its acquisition of Australia's leading experiential travel group, Journey Beyond; Ansarada in various pre-listing convertible note rounds; Coronado Global Resources in acquisition financing provided in connection with its $700 million acquisition of Curragh mine and the 2021 refinancing of its facilities with US$350 million high yield bonds and US$100 milllion asset-backed loan; and Peabody in its US$250 million receivables finance facility with PNC Bank.