Ben Davies is Head of Clients and Markets, Financial Advisory with Teneo in London, having joined Teneo as part of its purchase of Deloitte’s UK Restructuring business.

Ben has over two decades of experience covering debt and capital advisory, special situations investing and corporate restructuring. Ben is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He holds a doctorate from Cambridge University and a postgraduate diploma in financial strategy from the Said Business School, Oxford University.

Selected Project Experience

• Advisor to HM Treasury in relation to a £2bn Export Development Guarantee for British Airways (2020).
• Advisor to HM Treasury in relation to a £1.4bn Export Development Guarantee for easyJet plc (2020).
• Advisor to Matalan in relation to a £50m new money raise via a CLBILS loan and a new bond (2020).
• Advisor to HM Treasury in relation to a UK Government loan to Celsa Steel UK (2020).
• Lead advisor to the surety bonding providers to a French construction group (2019).
• Lead advisor to Nets A/S and its private equity sponsors Advent, Bain and Hellman & Friedman during the restructuring negotiations and eventual administration of Thomas Cook plc (2019).
• Lead advisor to the surety bonding providers of Interserve plc, a £3 billion turnover services/contracting group during its recapitalisation by special situations funds (2018-19).
• Lead advisor to the board a distressed Norwegian oilfield services group, and its private equity sponsor (2018).
• Financial advisor to a private tier 1 global construction group with £4bn revenue (2017).
• Lead advisor to the board of a global offshore vessel owner-operator during a refinancing of c.€320m bank debt by special situations funds (2017).
• Lead advisor to a downstream oil services group (bunkering, shipping & logistics across EMEA) during the negotiation of amendments to its borrowing base facility (2017).
• Lead advisor to the board of a European manufacturer of consumer products during the amendment & extension of a €225m term loan, led by two special situations funds, and a subsequent €80m cross-border ABL refinancing (2016-17).
• Lead advisor to the board of a European oil company during negotiations on amendments to its reserves-based lending facilities and a new equity raising (2016).
• Commercial counterparty risk assessment for one of the supermajor Oil & Gas groups (2016).
• Strategic options review for the bondholders (led by three special situations funds) of New World Resources plc, a leading European natural resources group (2016).
• Advisor to the monoline credit insurer of a European shadow toll road during renegotiation of a PPP concession agreement (2015).