Introduction

Peter is a front-end restructuring lawyer with over a decade of experience in complex cross-border restructurings and special situation financings.

Peter Madden is a counsel in the Singapore office of Ashurst Perkins Coie and a member of the restructuring, insolvency and special situations practice .

Peter regularly advises debtors, creditors, distressed debt investors and insolvency officeholders on a wide range of transactions including restructurings and workouts, special situation financings, distressed debt investing, enforcement and insolvency proceedings and insolvency-related litigation. Peter also advises lenders and borrowers on non-distressed financings and refinancings. Peter has extensive experience working with credit funds and was previously seconded in-house to a distressed debt fund.

Peter is a Fellow of INSOL International. He is admitted to practice in England & Wales and New South Wales, Australia.

Prior to joining Ashurst Perkins Coie, Peter worked at US and Australian law firms in Singapore, London and Sydney.


Areas of focus

  • Jetstar Asia Airways | Advising Jetstar Asia Airways in connection with its scheme of arrangement and the wind-down of its Singapore operations.
  • Credit fund | Advising on the enforcement of security and subsequent successful control over a mining asset in Africa.
  • Credit fund | Advising a secured creditor in relation to the restructuring of a Thai-based technology company.
  • Liquidators | Advising the liquidators of a Hong Kong green energy company in relation to its Hong Kong scheme of arrangement.
  • Bondholders | Advising bondholders regarding restructuring and enforcement options in respect of the bonds issued by Singapore holding company of an Indian-based e-commerce company.
  • Mandated lead arrangers | Acting for mandated lead arrangers and the syndicate lenders in respect of their US$200 million syndicated ECB term loan facility to a prominent Indian non-banking financial company.
  • Syndicate lenders | Acting for syndicated lenders on a US$230 million syndicated term loan facility to a media corporation in Indonesia.