About Sonya Van de Graaff
Sonya Van de Graaff has extensive experience counseling stakeholders across the capital structure on complex distressed situations. 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 and insolvency processes, as well as ‘special situations’. Equipped with experience spanning several sectors and industries, Sonya offers a broad perspective that helps address the objectives of her clients.
Sophisticated counsel coupled with a problem solving approach
Sonya offers robust representation in navigating the intricacies of varying insolvency and restructuring regimes. On the restructuring side, Sonya steers creditors and successor trustees through a range of statutory and privately negotiated restructuring tools and general contingency planning. Her extensive experience has also included counseling debtors and shareholders, as well as boards.
Practice Focus
- Restructurings and special situations transactions
- Schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans
- Liability management exercises
- Contingency planning
- Formal insolvency procedures, including administrations and liquidations
- 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