Proven Track Record. With 35 years of experience, Tim has consistently achieved value-maximizing results for investors through negotiation and litigation. His expertise spans:

• Stressed US real estate bankruptcies in the 1990s

• Restructurings post-dot.com bust and the Asian currency crisis in the 2000s

• Cross-border corporate and bank insolvencies after the 2008 global financial crisis

• Litigation and funding post-Covid-19 financial stress

• 20+ years of sovereign debt restructurings and related policy reform

Global Experience. Tim has worked throughout North America, Latin America, Western and Central Europe, and East Asia, which provides a deeply global perspective.

Governmental Perspective. Crafting an understanding of governments’ objectives, Tim has been an effective advocate for private actors investing in emerging markets, and a powerful policy advisor to governments, including in roles at the US Department of Commerce and advising various Central European and East Asian governments.

Litigation Funding Experience. Tim’s four years as an investor in legal assets have provided insights. Ideas include enhancing legal assets’ liquidity, financing defendants’ cases, and enabling law firms to develop key expertise.

Innovative Solutions. Success in Tim’s career is dependent on innovation, designing many solutions from scratch, with public examples like negotiating Iceland’s first distressed bank scheme of arrangement and designing natural disaster debt relief clauses for Grenada’s and Barbados’s sovereign obligations.

Thought Leadership. A frequent publisher and speaker, Tim advocates for industry-enhancing steps, and he distills practical lessons from ongoing work. Key examples include lecturing at Columbia Law School on AI’s impact on law practice, and speaking at INSOL International about advancing ESG objectives in insolvency proceedings.