Pippa Hill

She/HerPartner
London
About

Pippa Hill is an experienced non-contentious restructuring partner, working for a variety of stakeholders including banks and other lenders, government departments and agencies, companies and their boards, and insolvency practitioners.

Pippa has a particular focus advising government departments, non-departmental public bodies and regulators both in the UK and overseas in relation to distress and insolvency in a variety of sectors, and has spent time on secondment at HM Treasury advising on stability in the financial services sector. This experience means she is well placed to understand the drivers and specific concerns that arise in the public sector.

Pippa regularly writes on restructuring matters for journals such as Corporate Rescue & Insolvency and Recovery Magazine, and speaks at conferences recently including the GRR Women in Restructuring conference and Insol MENA forum.

She is a passionate advocate of diversity, equity and inclusion in the Restructuring profession. She is the Partner Sponsor of PACT, DLA Piper’s people network for families and carers, and previously was the Co-Chair for Diversity & Inclusion on the Steering Committee of IWIRC’s London chapter. She has been recognised in Global Restructuring Review's 2023 list of 40 Women in Restructuring and Financier Worldwide Magazines Power Players report on Bankruptcy & Insolvency.

Areas of FocusEnergy and Natural ResourcesInfrastructure, Construction and TransportInsuranceRestructuring
Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Leading the DLA Piper team advising the Ministry of Commerce & Industry of Qatar on the drafting of a new restructuring and insolvency law for the state as well as implementation of the UNCITRAL Model Law. 
  • Advising the Ministry of Defence on the insolvency of Harland & Wolff, to ensure continued delivery of the Fleet Solid Support naval vessel building programme.  
  • Advising the Official Receiver and Special Managers (EY) on the national interest compulsory liquidation of UKCloud, a provider of G Cloud data hosting services, running a trading liquidation to ensure a managed wind down of the business and transition of services. 
  • Acting for the Official Receiver as liquidator, and Special Managers from Ernst & Young, on a “National Interest Case” in relation to a data services provider in the public sector, ensuring continuity of service and a managed migration of data for multiple government departments and agencies.  
  • Advising the CQC on its market oversight obligations under the Care Act 2014 in relation to multiple distressed adult social care providers. 
  • Advising DoHSC in relations to contingency planning for funding to and/or failure of one of the largest providers in the adult social care sector. 
  • Acting for the secured lender to a well-known distressed payment services provider, achieving a settlement that allowed our client to be repaid in full in advance of a subsequent special administration. 
  • Advising Joint Administrators of Greensill Capital (UK) Limited on the work out of a number of GCUK's complex supply chain finance relationships. 
  • Advising in relation to distressed energy suppliers and potential Supplier of Last Resort appointments, including *advising Co-op Energy on its appointment as SoLR to GB Energy customers (the first use of the SoLR appointment process). 
  • Advising a multi-national group in the construction sector on a solvent group restructuring spanning the UK and US, as well as multiple off-shore jurisdictions. 
  • Advising the Pension Protection Fund on the "drop in" of a defined benefit pension scheme to the PPF by way of a CVA, in the charity sector.
  • Advising HM Government on closure funding made to Hatfield Colliery to fund an orderly wind down.*
  • Advising the directors of special purpose vehicle main contractor in relation to the financial and contractual issues arising from significant contractual disputes relating to a multi-billion pound public sector PFI outsourcing contract.*
     
Languages
  • English
  • French
Education
  • B.A., Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford 2003

Publications

  • 10 key points coming out of the stabilisation of Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited, 13 March 2023
  • Long awaited clarity (of sorts) on the Creditor Duty: The Supreme Court judgment in BTI v Sequana, 09 October 2022
  • Energy Suppliers in Crisis – The Legal Issues, 27 September 2021
  • Social care – overview of the challenges, with Sam Reeves, Recovery, Winter 2021 
  • Legal Q&A, Recovery, Summer 2021, with Natalie Peacock, and Summer 2018
  • Weighing up the options for managing insolvency, with Julian Pallett, Care Management Matters, September 2019
  • Construction contracts: a complex latticework, with Sue Ryan and Lindsay Hammond, Recovery, Summer 2019, p. 24-25
  • A Christmas present from the PPF: new and updated guidance for insolvency practitioners, with Jas Pangli, Corporate Rescue & Insolvency, 2019, 2 CRI 54
  • Pensions Restructuring: time to use the tools available effectively? Corporate Rescue & Insolvency, 2017, 3 CRI 86
     

Seminars

  • R3 Introduction to Insolvency – Partnership Insolvency

    My latest insights

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    Navigating Troubled Waters: Updates to water insolvency legislation amid growing concerns...

    23 February 2024 .8 minute read

    Podcast

    Episode 4: Senior Women in Restructuring: reflections on an evolving path – Part 2

    11 September 2023 .1 minute read

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    Episode 3: Senior Women in Restructuring: reflections on an evolving path – Part 1

    4 September 2023 .1 minute read

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    +44 207 153 7044
    (Work, London)