Alexandra Whitby

Partner
Sydney

Biography

Alexandra is a partner in our Disputes and Investigations group.

She practices in commercial litigation specialising in contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency transactions and regularly advises companies, lenders and insolvency practitioners on high value complex transactions, cross-border transactions and debt restructuring matters.

Alexandra also advises media clients with respect to complex issues arising under the broadcasting services legislation.

Alexandra is a professional member of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA).

Experience

Alexandra’s experience includes advising:

  • Anchorage Capital, Midtown Acquisitions, CBA and Deutsche Bank in proceedings commenced against certain former directors and officers of the Arrium Group alleging negligence and misleading or deceptive conduct.

  • RiverCity companies in obtaining a $280 million settlement from AECOM for misleading and deceptive conduct.

  • GrainCorp, in proceedings brought by the liquidators of MF Global Australia.

  • Nine Entertainment in defending breach of contract proceedings brought by WIN.

  • BrisConnections companies in securing a $121 million settlement from Arup for misleading and deceptive conduct.

  • Lowe’s (US) in numerous proceedings against Woolworths in relation to the exit and unwinding of their joint venture hardware businesses, Masters and Home, Timber & Hardware.

  • Afterpay in relation to its acquisition by Block, Inc for $39 billion (US$29 billion), Australia’s largest ever corporate transaction.

  • Ardent Leisure Group, Oz Minerals, Nearmap, Elmo Software, DuluxGroup, Intega Group, Virtus Group, Kykr, SAI Global and others in respect of schemes of arrangement and takeover restructures.

  • The lenders to Slater & Gordon on the successful restructure of its $1 billion debt by way of two separate but inter-conditional creditor schemes.

  • Nine Entertainment Group in respect of its $3.4 billion debt-for-equity restructuring by way of a creditors’ scheme of arrangement (the Insolvency and Restructuring Deal of the Year, 2013 ALB Australasian Law Awards).

  • BIS Industries and KKR on the restructure of BIS Industries’ $1.17 billion debt facilities.

  • The secured noteholders (led by First Pacific Advisors) of Boart Longyear, in relation to the proposed debt for equity swap.

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