Ms. Shucksmith has general experience in financings and taking security over assets. She also advises on corporate law aspects in lending and other transactions.

Ms. Shucksmith has assisted in a number of eurobond issuances representing the interests of corporate trustees. She has also worked on a number of distressed securitisations involving commercial mortgage-backed securities and other debt obligations some of which had a credit default swap and a total return swap embedded in them.

Ms. Shucksmith is admitted as solicitor in England and Wales and is qualified in Russian Civil law.

Select Representations

• Acting for the lender on the refinancing on a limited recourse basis of an iron ore project in Brazil.
• Acting for the corporate trustee in a distressed bond issue in connection with the noteholders' initiatives on forming a committee and appointing a controlling party representative.
• Acting for the corporate trustee in a commercial mortgage-backed securities transaction in connection with the replacement of a special servicer and a master servicer of the underlying loan obligations.
• Acting for the corporate trustee of a high yield bond issue in a high profile multi-jurisdictional insolvency of the bond issuer and its various subsidiaries as security providers.
• Acting for the noteholders in connection with advice on the replacement of the trustee in a distressed bond issue.
• Acting for the corporate trustee in connection with a eurobond issuance exceeding £300,000,000.

Bar and Court Admissions

England and Wales, 2008

Russia (jurist)

Education

BPP Law School-London, Legal Practice Course, 2007

London Metropolitan University-London, Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Studies, 2003

Kaliningrad State University-Russia, Higher Education Degree in Jurisprudence, 2000

Languages

Russian