Tom Pugh

Practice Areas

Tom Pugh is a partner in the Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Group. Tom focuses on advising insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors and shareholders in respect of cross-border insolvencies and restructurings and investment disputes, with experience in consensual workouts; court-led restructurings; and enforcement / strategic investment advisory reviews over more than 15 years in Asia. Tom joined Walkers in September 2021 from Mayer Brown where he was a partner in the insolvency and restructuring team.

Tom has worked on a variety of large-scale cross-border liquidations and restructurings such as Lehman Brothers and MF Global (acting in each case for the liquidators in Hong Kong), Asia-related Chapter 11 cases such as Pacific Andes/China Fishery and TMT; and advised the steering committee representing the interests of more than 30 bank lenders and credit support providers/ECAs in connection with Hong Kong-listed Genting's USD3.5 billion debt restructuring, as well as MIE Holdings Corporation's recent restructuring and cross-jurisdictional recognition cases such as Z-Obee, Changang and Huiyuan Juice involving interplay among the courts of Hong Kong and Bermuda/the Cayman Islands.

Restructuring and liquidation work has included assignments involving China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and Japan.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Bermuda