About
Thesis title
'What response, if any, could English Law have with respect to Liability Management Exercises?' [Provisional]
Supervisors
Professor Jo Braithwaite; Professor Sarah Paterson
About
Billy holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Master of Corporate and Commercial Law (LLM) from LSE Law School. Before commencing his PhD research, he qualified as a solicitor after a training contract with Freshfields.
Research interests
Financial Markets; Corporate Restructuring; Private Law.
Billy's research focuses on understanding the role of private law in regulating Liability Management Exercises (LMEs). By placing LMEs into the shifting corporate finance and restructuring landscape of the past decade, his research seeks to establish a conceptual framework of LMEs, which can be used to assist with the structuring of, and the adjudication of disputes arising out of, LMEs.
Affiliations / memberships
- Solicitor (England and Wales).
Awards & scholarships
- LSE Law PhD Studentship (2026 - 2030)