John Marsden

Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency.

John Marsden is a partner of Mayer Brown and is the Managing Partner of the firm's Vietnam and Thailand offices. He represents clients in a wide range of matters in the commercial and corporate context. His assignments have included financing transactions, non-performing loan disposals and corporate restructurings. John has provided advice in such large-scale restructurings or insolvencies as Asia Pulp and Paper, Pacific Andes, the Moulin Group, TMT and Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group, all of which are multi-jurisdictional transactions. John was placed into the Shanghai office for three years during which time he was involved with a number of substantial property acquisition and financing transactions.

John has been named a Band 1 Restructuring and Insolvency Lawyer by Chambers Asia Pacific (2013-2018), Market Leader in Restructuring and Insolvency by IFLR1000 (2018-2019) and Leading Lawyer in Restructuring and Insolvency by IFLR1000 (2010-2017). Chambers Asia Pacific (2018) described John as he provides an “aggressive and punchy service, but is very commercial too”.

The University of Adelaide, LLB (Hons); The University of New South Wales, BSc (Hons); The University of Sydney, MPsych.