Experience 

Ashley has extensive experience advising banks, borrowers, bondholders, insolvency practitioners, pension trustees and other key stakeholders in relation to all aspects of restructuring, insolvency and distressed investing. 

Last year he was part of the Mayer Brown team that represented GMAC on its $60bn global refinancing project.  He is currently advising the joint receivers of Golden Key Ltd. (in receivership), a structured investment vehicle (SIV) and is also involved in advising on a range of cross border restructurings in the automotive, real estate, construction and retail sectors.

Ashley's experience includes taking a lead role in some of the most high profile UK and European insolvencies and restructurings of recent years.  These include advising the PPP administrators of Metronet, the bondholders of the Eurotunnel Group and the lenders and, subsequently, administrators to the Courts group.

Ashley joined the London office of Mayer Brown in 2008.  Prior to that he was with another major London firm.  

Education 

University of Pretoria, Advanced Certificate in International Insolvency Law, 2002 • Rand Afrikaans University, Diploma in Insolvency Law, 1999; (distinction, awarded Absa Bank Prize) • University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, LLB, 1994 • University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, BA, 1992

Admitted

• England and Wales, 2001
• South Africa, 1996

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