Dasha Bechade has a broad range of experience advising debtors and creditors in cross-border credit and debt capital markets transactions as well as various stakeholders across a broad range of restructuring transactions. Dasha’s recent public experience includes acting for borrowers, private equity sponsors, directors, shareholders, financial institutions, credit funds and bondholders in financial restructuring and strategic investors in distressed situations.
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Work Highlights
- The ad hoc group of noteholders to Idorsia in respect of the successful restructuring of the CHF 800 million bonds
- The ad hoc group of secured noteholders to Quatrim in respect of the €11 billion financial restructuring of Groupe Casino
- The second lien lender to Wittur group in relation to its restructuring (involving a debt-for-equity swap)
- TDR in connection with the recapitalization of its portfolio company Hurtigruten
- Pemberton as senior lender to Oscar Mayer in relation to the group’s restructuring (involving a debt-for-equity swap)
- Centerbridge and one of its portfolio companies in connection with its financial restructuring
- Esken Limited on the recapitalisation of London Southend Airport
- Blackstone Real Estate Partners in respect of its Spanish real estate joint venture with Banco Santander, Project Quasar Pledgeco S.L.U. and the restructuring of its c.€6 billion debt
Education
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Columbia Law School, 2016 J.D.
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
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Columbia University, 2011 B.A.
cum laude
Admissions
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England and Wales 2020
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New York 2017
Dasha Bechade is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Restructuring team based in London. Qualified in both New York and English law, Dasha has a broad range of experience advising debtors and creditors in cross-border credit and debt capital markets transactions as well as various stakeholders across a broad range of restructuring transactions. Recognized by The Legal 500 UK, Dasha’s recent public experience includes acting for borrowers, private equity sponsors, directors, shareholders, financial institutions, credit funds and bondholders in financial restructuring and strategic investors in distressed situations.
Notable experience includes advising:
- The ad hoc group of noteholders to Idorsia in respect of the successful restructuring of the CHF 800 million bonds
- The ad hoc group of secured noteholders to Quatrim in respect of the €11 billion financial restructuring of Groupe Casino
- The second lien lender to Wittur group in relation to its restructuring (involving a debt-for-equity swap)
- TDR in connection with the recapitalization of its portfolio company Hurtigruten
- Pemberton as senior lender to Oscar Mayer in relation to the group’s restructuring (involving a debt-for-equity swap)
- Centerbridge and one of its portfolio companies in connection with its financial restructuring
- Esken Limited on the recapitalisation of London Southend Airport
- Blackstone Real Estate Partners in respect of its Spanish real estate joint venture with Banco Santander, Project Quasar Pledgeco S.L.U. and the restructuring of its c. €6 billion debt
Dasha received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2016, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received her B.A. in English from Columbia University in 2011, graduating cum laude with departmental honors. She is admitted to practice in England and Wales and New York.