Profile
Helena Nathanson is a member of the Banking and Financial Institutions Practice in Greenberg Traurig's London office. Her practice is in Structured Finance, Capital Markets and all secured and unsecured lending transactions, with a particular focus on the Corporate Trustees and Agents. Helena also has wide-ranging experience handling all roles of a Trustee and any Agent within restructurings and bankruptcies.
Concentrations
- Structured finance
- Capital markets
- Secured/unsecured lending
- Bankruptcy and restructurings
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented a corporate trustee in connection with its continuing and expanding roles as trustee and security agent in relation to exchange traded fund platforms.°
- Represented global corporate trustees in connection with Schemes of Arrangement and a Chapter 15 proceedings in New York.°
- Represented corporate trustee in relation to appointment of a liquidator over all of the Issuer’s assets including those forming part of collateral in a high yield bond issuance, and continued to represent the same trustee vis-à-vis the Chapter 11 proceedings initiated in Hong Kong and concurrently run in New York.°
- Represented an entrepreneurial corporate trustee in connection with an unwind of a structured note programme and litigation against the National Bank of Ghana.°
- Represented numerous global corporate trustees in connection with their respective roles in relation to high yield bond issuances with collateral spanning from the Americas, Australasia to pan-European.°
- Represented a corporate trustee in connection with a creation of a fraudulent second charge over collateral by an unconnected third party.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Nathanson prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Credentials
Education
- LLB, Bachelor of Arts, Thames Valley University
- Legal Practice Course, Thames Valley University
Admissions
- England and Wales
Languages
- Finnish, Native
- Swedish, Conversational
- French, Conversational
- German, Conversational