Trevor Wood
Partner
Trevor advises banks, funds, and other financial institutions on cross‑border financing, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets. His practice spans the full spectrum of secured and unsecured lending, including restructurings and workouts, bilateral and syndicated facilities, export and commodity finance, real estate and project finance, securitisation (including regulatory issues), and distressed debt transactions.
Clients rely on Trevor in lending, restructuring, and workout scenarios where commercially creative, legally robust solutions are essential. His earlier career as a banker gives him a practical understanding of how lenders and borrowers assess and price risk. He draws on that insight, together with extensive international finance experience, to:
- redesign and strengthen security packages
- recalibrate intercreditor arrangements
- streamline multi‑jurisdictional transactions, including those involving unpredictable legal systems
His ability to simplify complex structures into clear, actionable strategies helps clients mitigate risk and close transactions efficiently in challenging markets.
Trevor’s blend of legal and commercial perspective has shaped market practice. He was involved in the establishment of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association and drafted its first standard form documentation for primary and secondary loan trades, creating a foundation for greater consistency and efficiency across the region’s finance markets. His long-standing focus on emerging markets gives clients both seasoned judgment and strategies tested in real‑world conditions.
Highlights
- Turkish power station restructuring — Advised senior secured lenders on a complex restructuring involving a debt‑for‑equity swap, obligor group reorganisation, and negotiation of a detailed shareholders’ agreement.
- Bulsatcom (Bulgaria) — Guided lenders through the financing, restructuring, and eventual sale of the media group, including funding a new satellite launch, executing a debt‑for‑equity swap, and managing an emergency refinancing followed by a post‑pack administration sale.
- Project Isobel (UK) — Represented a UK clearing bank in the first major London real estate NPL portfolio sale, including vendor financing later securitised, setting a market precedent for structured distressed asset exits.
- City of London development financing — Advised a borrower on acquisition and refinancing using an Islamic Master Murabaha and an LMA‑based mezzanine facility, aligning Shari’a‑compliant and conventional lending requirements.
- Manila International Airport Terminal 3 — Assisted in project financing for the terminal’s development, balancing stakeholder interests and timing pressures across complex jurisdictional frameworks.
- Viridian Group (Northern Ireland Electricity)