Mark Fennessy > McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP
22 Bishopsgate
London
EC2N 4BQ
England
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Work Department

Restructuring and insolvency

Position

Partner Mark Fennessy 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 has advised on a number of complex cross border matters for creditors (including direct lenders and distressed debt funds) and sponsors and is highly skilled in the restructuring of complex structures and an expert in special situations. He has also actively led a number of complex litigation matters and has significant experience in the investigation of complex fraud cases, multijurisdictional disputes, anti-avoidance/antecedent transaction advice, corporate investigation and analysis, asset tracing, international enforcement and the development of litigation strategies.

Additionally, Mark is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and an Authorised Fixed Charge Receiver (Non-appointment taking).

View more at: https://www.mwe.com/people/mark-fennessy/

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)

Mark FennessyMcDermott Will & Emery UK LLP

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.