Toby Morris

Since joining Kirkland, Toby has worked on the following matters:

• PizzaExpress on its refinancing
• Cineworld group and its UK subsidiaries on their financial and leasehold restructuring, implemented by way of four UK restructuring plans
• Carlyle on its debt-for-equity swap in London Southend Airport
• Constellation Automotive Group on its >£1.5 billion comprehensive recapitalisation transaction
• Hurtigruten and its sponsor, TDR, on its multi-stakeholder recapitalization
• Accell Group on its interim financing
• A private credit fund on the €885 million refinancing of Grupo Dia
• A private credit fund on its €1 billion investment in Grifols
• The ad hoc group of major third-party financial creditors on the implementation of the restructuring of Steinhoff

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

Ropes & Gray LLP

• Associate, 2023
• Trainee Solicitor, 2021–2023