Ibrahim Abdel Salam Babiker

Recent examples of Ibrahim’s work include advising:

• Certain major Hong Kong-listed real estate issuers, including China Evergrande Group, Fantasia Holdings Group Co., and Shimao Group Holdings Ltd., on offshore debt restructuring transactions.
  
• Ebix, Inc., a global software and technology company, and certain of its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, to address approximately US$700 million in funded debt obligations, through a successful asset sale and sponsored plan of reorganization.
• Zhongliang on the restructuring of its circa US$1.2 billion of offshore debt via a Hong Kong scheme of arrangement.
• A special situations fund in relation to GBP170 million sale and lease back of a Formula One and sports cars manufacturer’s global headquarters.
• Travelex on its financial and operational restructuring.
• An underwriter in connection with the tap of a sovereign’s existing high yield notes.
  
• Underwriters in connection with the issuance of US$300 million notes issued by an Armenian mining services group.
  
• The ad hoc committee of lenders to a global furniture company in respect of the financial restructuring of the group.
• A petroleum company in respect of its investment in, and acquisition of, another energy group.
• The ad hoc committee of bondholders in respect of the financial restructuring of a Scottish multimedia company.
• An investor in its acquisition of a significant stakehold and investment in a UK newspaper group.
  
• A British film and studio group in connection with its GBP 300 million refinancing.
  
• Agent and lenders in connection with the GBP 530 million refinancing of a major British fashion and homeware retailer.
  
• Lender in connection with the refinancing of a major European cinema operator.

*Some of the above matters were handled by Ibrahim prior to joining Sidley