Mark Fennessy > McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP Offices
22 Bishopsgate
London
EC2N 4BQ
England
Mark Fennessy
Work Department
Restructuring and insolvency
Position
Mark Fennessy is the co-head of the London Transactions Group, and the London Finance, Restructuring and Special Situations Group. He focuses his practice on contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters. He has particular experience in multifaceted group collapses and global insolvency issues. He has been involved in a number of high-profile assignments for banks, funds and various strategic parties. Mark leads a team with unrivalled expertise in special situations, including in relation to assets facing significant and complex governance and financial challenges.
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Memberships
- International Corporate Rescue, Founder and Editor
- Insolvency Practitioners Association, Member
- Insol Europe, Member
- Turnaround Management Association, Member
- American Bankruptcy Institute, Member
- NARA, the UK’s Association of Property and Fixed Charge Receivers, Fellow and former Council Member
- R3: Association of Business Recovery Professionals, Fellow
- UCL Faculty of Laws (London), Centre for Commercial Law, Advisory Committee Member
- Britain in Europe Think-Tank, Brunel Law School
Education
Education
Joint Insolvency Examination Board, Examination, 1999
The College of Law of England and Wales, Law Society Finals, 1991
City University, London, Diploma in Law, 1989
University College London, B.Sc. (Hons), 1988
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
(Leading partners)The ‘extremely responsive and knowledgeable’ team at McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP provides ‘very commercial and pragmatic’ advice to stakeholders in complex cross-border restructurings and insolvencies, often working alongside other offices in the firm’s network and complementary practice areas. Recognised as ‘a brilliant strategist’, Mark Fennessy is pivotal to the team’s success in the market, with a practice that ‘goes far beyond straightforward restructuring cases, to include often very difficult special situation scenarios’, as well as taking on a continued flow of work for the firm’s core client, a global debt administrator. Fennessy and Aymen Mahmoud co-head a team that also includes King’s Counsel Marcia Shekerdemian, who is a senior consultant at the firm.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate restructuring & insolvency London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Risk advisory > ESG
- Finance > High yield
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Real estate > Property finance
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Employment > Employers