Toby Morris
Associate Restructuring
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Overview
Toby Morris is a restructuring associate in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises corporate borrowers, investment funds and alternative capital funds on multi-jurisdictional restructurings, special situations opportunities, event-driven financings and complex lending matters across the capital structure and credit spectrum.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Toby has worked on the following matters:
- Cineworld group and its UK subsidiaries on their financial and leasehold restructuring, implemented by way of four UK restructuring plans
- Advising the Norwegian specialist cruise operator Hurtigruten and its sponsor, TDR, on its multi-stakeholder recapitalization
Prior to joining Kirkland, Toby worked on the following matters:
- Advising a bondholder group on the consensual restructuring of Convene Group, including the equitisation of its first and second lien debt
- Advising Output Services Group and certain of its affiliates in connection with the UK aspects of its prepackaged Chapter 11 cases. In 2023, The M&A Advisor recognized the successful restructuring of Output Services Group as “Information Technology Deal of the Year” as part of its 17th Annual Turnaround Awards
- Advising Blackstone on the financing of its $6.4 billion acquisition of Crown Resorts luxury hotel and casino portfolio in Australia
- Advising Smurfit Kappa Group on the financing aspects of its proposed combination with WestRock, an American corrugated packaging company
- Advising a special opportunities credit fund on its $50 million debt and equity investment in a European travel company
- Advising a company on bespoke financings with credit fund SCIO Capital for the purchase and renting out of studio sites
- Advising a U.S. healthcare company on a $40 million venture financing deal involving the issuance of equity warrants and a non-payment insurance policy
- Advising Bridgepoint on the financing aspects of its acquisition of Achilles, a supply chain risk and performance management company
Prior Experience
Ropes & Gray LLP
- Associate, 2023
- Trainee Solicitor, 2021–2023
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2023, Admitted to practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales
Education
- BPP Law SchoolLegal Practice Course; Graduate Diploma in Lawwith Distinction2021
- Mansfield College, University of OxfordM.St., Religious Studies2019
- Durham UniversityB.A., Theology & International StudiesFirst Class Honours2018