Trevor Wood

Trevor Wood assists banks, funds and other financial institutions with cross-border financing, especially in emerging markets.

He advises on complex secured and unsecured financing matters, including restructuring and workouts, bilateral and syndicated loans, export and commodity finance, real estate and project finance, securitization matters (including regulatory) and distressed debt transactions.

Clients depend on Trevor in complex lending, restructuring and workout scenarios where creative solutions are critical. As a former banker, he understands how lenders and borrowers evaluate risk, and he uses that insight along with his extensive experience in international finance to redesign security packages, recalibrate intercreditor arrangements and streamline transactions across jurisdictions with unpredictable legal systems. By simplifying complexity into actionable solutions, he helps clients mitigate risk when closing financing deals in challenging markets.

Trevor’s ability to bridge legal and commercial perspectives also shapes his industry contributions. He co-founded the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association and drafted its first standard form documentation for primary and secondary loan deals, laying the groundwork for greater efficiency and consistency in the region’s finance markets. His career-long focus on emerging markets gives clients both seasoned judgment and practical, commercially tested strategies.

Experience

• Advised senior secured lenders on a Turkish power station restructuring, including a debt-for-equity swap, obligor group reorganization and complex shareholders’ agreement.
• Guided lenders on financing, restructuring and sale of Bulgarian media group Bulsatcom, including the financing of a new satellite launch, complex restructuring including a debt-for-equity swap and emergency refinancing followed by a later post-pack administration sale.
• Represented a UK clearing bank in Project Isobel, the first major London real estate NPL portfolio sale, including vendor financing later securitized, setting a market precedent for structured distressed asset exits.
• Advised a borrower on City of London development property acquisition and refinancing with an Islamic Master Murabaha and LMA-based mezzanine facility, aligning Shari’a-compliant and commercial lending requirements.
• Assisted in project financing for Manila International Airport’s third terminal, balancing stakeholder interests and timing pressures to support large-scale infrastructure development under complex jurisdictional constraints.
• Counseled lenders on the leveraged financing of Viridian Group’s public-to-private acquisition, structuring the deal to reconcile competing sponsor and lender interests and enable successful privatization of Northern Ireland Electricity.