Spencer Jones

Spencer is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura Consulting (Europe) Limited and has more than thirty years’ experience advising sovereign governments and their creditors on a wide variety of financial matters including funding, risk management and debt restructuring. He has been closely involved in some of the most significant sovereign financial transactions of recent years including numerous benchmark issuances in the international capital markets, the largest debt write-off for a middle income country at that time and the first sovereign buy back of official sector claims undertaken on market terms. He has been working in the international financial markets for the last 36 years. Spencer has advised the governments of the Dominican Republic, Iraq, Ecuador, Serbia, Russia and Pakistan on their debt restructuring negotiations as well as the governments of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Peru on transformative liability management transactions. He also advised bondholders and other creditors on sovereign debt workouts in Barbados, Belize, Chad and Suriname and is currently advising the Zambian bondholder committee and a consortium of domestic creditors in Sri Lanka.