About Sonya Van de Graaff
Sonya Van de Graaff has extensive experience counseling stakeholders across the capital structure on complex insolvency and restructuring issues arising in contentious and non-contentious circumstances. She guides trustees as well as funds and other investors (both individually and in ad hoc groups), through a wide range of matters in English and cross-border restructuring processes, distressed investing and financing. Equipped with experience spanning several sectors and industries, Sonya offers a broad perspective that helps address the objectives of a wide spectrum of stakeholders.
Sophisticated counsel coupled with a collaborative style
Sonya offers robust representation that combines a client-focused approach with skills in navigating the intricacies of varying insolvency and restructuring regimes. On the restructuring side, Sonya steers creditors and successor trustees through company voluntary arrangements, restructuring plans, schemes of arrangement and general contingency planning. Her extensive experience has also included counseling debtors and shareholders, as well as boards.
Practice Focus
- Restructurings and transactional matters
- Formal insolvency procedures, including administrations and liquidations
- Schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans
- Company voluntary arrangements
- Contingency planning
- Aviation
- Retail
- Oil and Gas
- Financial services
Representative Experience
News
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March 29, 2023
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December 19, 2022
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November 30, 2022
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October 17, 2022
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May 3, 2022
Publications
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October 9, 2023
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September 27, 2023
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August 17, 2023
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June 9, 2023
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May 10, 2023
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April 17, 2023
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March 27, 2023
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February/March 2023
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October 20, 2022
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Presentations and Events
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November 9, 2023Speaker | International Restructures and Insolvencies