Corporate Finance

Advise on major UK government corporate finance matters, including financial interventions into corporate structures and corporate finance negotiations

 

The UKGI team has senior level investment banking and restructuring expertise that we leverage to advise government in a number of ways:

  • On all major UK government interventions into corporate structures and on major UK government corporate finance negotiations
  • Where there is actual or likely financial distress in a company or sector including where the government is considering making an investment into a company in distress
  • On mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, including as a member of the cross-Whitehall Investment Security Group and M&A arising from distress situations

Hannah Gray

Director

Hannah joined UKGI in 2017 and leads the UKGI Special Situations team. The Special Situations team combines civil servants and restructuring/insolvency professionals who focus on sectors and corporates where there is the risk of economic shock impact to major employment or assets of national interest. Hannah has provided debt and balance sheet advice to stressed and distressed corporates since 2001. She is a highly experienced advisor, having worked on a wide range of projects covering strategic balance sheet reviews, recapitalisations, debt-for-equity swaps, creditor representation, covenant renegotiations, securitisation advisory, high yield bond issuance, rights offerings, private debt placements and stressed M&A. Hannah is a FCA and has previously worked for Deloitte, UBS, Rothschild and PwC.

Alex Reeves

Director

Alex joined UK Government Investments (formerly the Shareholder Executive) in January 2010, and has worked on a variety of corporate finance and governance projects, including real estate and investment portfolio sales, government investments in the aerospace and steel sectors and inward M&A. He is a Non Executive Director of London & Continental Railways Limited and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, and runs UKGI’s NED Forum.

Prior to joining UKGI, Alex spent over ten years in corporate advisory and investment banking roles focused on the financial services sector, most recently in the FIG M&A Team at Jefferies in London. During this time, he advised on and managed a large number of UK and cross-border M&A transactions for UK, European and US clients, with a particular focus on the asset management sector.

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