Scott Gittins
Professional History
Scott has over 20 years of experience spanning finance, corporate recovery, debt restructuring and distressed credit management across the Asia-Pacific region.
His extensive background encompasses hundreds of situations handled across most jurisdictions in Asia, frequently navigating complex financial distress, creditor negotiations and special situations. His expertise spans the full corporate lifecycle: from early-stage remediation through to complex enforcement, litigation and multi-stakeholder restructurings.
Scott’s deep institutional grounding in finance, credit risk, portfolio protection and financial analysis underpins the evaluation and execution of high-stakes restructuring and recovery assignments. Backed by extensive experience across major financial institutions, he is widely recognised for establishing and implementing practical, value-maximising solutions for complex debt and capital structure challenges.
Professional Experience
Led a team managing a sizeable portfolio of restructuring and insolvency situations, undertaking rigorous evaluations of financial health, cash flow capacity, operational stress-testing and industry outlooks.
Consistently led high-stakes, time-sensitive negotiations involving multiple stakeholders with divergent priorities, successfully driving alignment and consensus.
Advised senior executives on debt restructuring, insolvency options and strategic exits to maximise recovery, underpinned by detailed asset and collateral valuations and impairment implications.
Developed and implemented tailored risk mitigation and early-intervention strategies to protect institutional capital.
Coordinated closely with external advisors to drive successful enforcement actions.
Selected Situations
Enforced security rights to uphold capital structure integrity, culminating in the comprehensive restructuring and exit of a Mongolian coal mine.
Negotiated the restructuring and eventual exit of a Philippines gold mine.
Executed a restructuring and subsequent exit of a satellite communications business.
Negotiated a recovery, restructuring and eventual exit of an Indonesian textile manufacturer.
Led the workout and exit of a Singaporean container ship operator.
Executed the restructuring and exit of a South Korean solar manufacturer.
Managed the workout and exit of several Australian mining and infrastructure situations.
Directed the workout and exit of a Malaysian food manufacturer.
Managed the restructuring and recovery of multiple airline situations.
Led the arrest and record-breaking judicial auction of an oil tanker in China via Taobao.
Managed the restructuring and exit of an Indian telecommunications company.
Led the restructuring of a strategic port development in Vietnam.
Negotiated the restructuring of a Chinese lithium producer.