Ms Kay Morley > Dechert LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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25 Cannon Street
LONDON
EC4M 5UB
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Ms Kay Morley
Work Department
Financial Restructuring
Position
Partner
Career
Kay V. Morley is a partner in Dechert’s global financial restructuring group, advising stakeholders on all aspects of insolvency and corporate restructuring with a particular focus on European special situations and complex cross-border restructurings. Ms. Morley’s clients include hedge funds and other distressed investors, advising them on the acquisition of loan portfolios and the implementation of “loan to own” strategies. She also regularly provides advice to debtors in distress and private equity portfolio companies and represents insolvency practitioners in domestic and offshore situations.
Education
- University of Bristol, LL.B. (Hons), 1997
- University of Bristol, LL.M., 1998
- The College of Law, Guildford, Legal Practice Course, 2000
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
(Leading partners)Leveraging the firm’s well-established lineage in the asset management space and also able to tap into its broader international network, Dechert LLP has gained most of its traction in the market through working for funds seeking to realise value in cross-border distressed situations. Team head Adam Plainer has vast experience and knowledge across a variety of restructuring tools, as well as being adept at handling more transactional strategies, including distressed M&A mandates. The ‘exceptional’ Kay Morley is also key to the team’s success for funds, including in a special situations context and on loan-to-own strategies.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate restructuring & insolvency London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+