Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown is a ‘commercially-minded and exceptionally supportive’ full-service restructuring practice with extensive experience in both contentious and non-contentious matters. The team’s expertise covers bond restructurings, trust asset claim adjudication and cross-border enforcement. The practitioners act for creditors, issuers, insolvency practitioners and corporate trustees, with notably clients such as CDB, ICBC and Maybank. The head of practice, John Marsden, represents clients in a wide range of matters and is highly knowledgeable in financing transactions, non-performing loan disposals and corporate restructurings. The team also includes Terence Tung , who has extensive experience in cross-border disputes; the highly experienced Pierre Dzakpasu, and Benjamin McCosker, whose expertise covers complex, multi-jurisdictional restructuring transactions.
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Testimonials
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‘Excellent value, strong partner/counsel engagement. Helpful, good technically, and responsive. Commercially-minded, and exceptionally supportive and focused on the clients' needs. Willing to do whatever it takes to get to the fundamentals of a problem.’
‘John Marsden, good technical knowledge, very client friendly.
- 'Ben McCosker, extremely responsive and commercial, eager to get involved and to understand our business. Very good technically.'
Key clients
- Huarong Asset Management
- China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited
- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited ("ICBC")
- China Development Bank
- Bain Capital
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- KPMG
- Ernst & Young
- FTI Consulting
- International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- Malayan Banking Berhad ("Maybank")
- OCBC
- DHB
- CIMB
- KfW
- CACIB
- DNB
- RHB
- HNA Group
- Changgang Dunxin Holdings Limited
- Pinpoint
- Nortel Networks (Asia) Limited (NNAL)
- Mercuria
- Glorious Sun - Jeanswest
- Hang Seng Bank Limited
- DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
- Yuanta Commercial Bank Co. Ltd.
- Chang Hwa Commercial Bank, Ltd
- Taiwan Cooperative Bank Limited
- Bank of Taiwan
- EnTie Commercial Bank
- Mega International Commercial Bank Co., Ltd.,
- Bank Sinopac
- Taiwan Business Bank Ltd
- Far Eastern International Bank
Work highlights
- Advised the seven-bank ad hoc steering committee representing all major banking creditors to Genting Hong Kong Limited's cruise, ship construction, gaming operation and associated businesses. The committee represented more than 30 bank lenders and credit support providers in the US$3.5bn debt restructuring.
- Represented China Development Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China as the main creditors in the restructure and recapitalization of Cell C, a major and strategically diverse South African telecommunication corporation.
- Advising the provisional liquidators of Hong Kong listed Changgang Dunxin Holdings Limited (incorporated in the Cayman Islands), followed up by ground-breaking action on Z-Obee.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
John Marsden