The ‘exceptional’ team at Linklaters LLP provides ’technically excellent and commercially-minded advice’ to creditors, debtors, investors and insolvency practitioners (IPs) in both formal insolvency matters and more transactional mandates, including special situations and distressed M&A. Much of the work also has a cross-border angle, with the firm able to provide a true one-stop-shop service by virtue of its ‘unrivalled geographical reach’.  The ’client-focused, commercial and technically brilliant’ Richard Hodgson is also very visible at handling cross-border mandates, regularly taking the lead on insolvencies within regulated sectors. Despite her newly appointed role as co-head of the firm’s overarching global banking practice, Rebecca Jarvis remains very visible on the fee-earning front, both for company debtors and lenders as creditors, and is incredibly knowledgeable across a range of insolvency processes, as well as on restructuring mandates. Nick Le Masurier and Hodgson co-head a team which also includes ‘top-class litigator’ Chris Stevenson, who excels at handling contentious insolvency work; Matthew Harding, who handles multi-jurisdictional restructurings; and the ’thoughtful and commercial’ Max Krasner, recently promoted to partner, who continues to gain traction among IPs, debtors and bondholders.

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Testimonials

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  • 'The exceptional team works collaboratively on the largest cross-border transactions, where it provides technically excellent and commercially-minded advice.'
  • 'They have unrivalled geographical reach.'
  • 'Richard Hodgson is client focused, commercial and technically brilliant.'
  • 'Chris Stevenson is a top-class litigator.'
  • 'A rising star, Max Krasner is thoughtful and commercial.'

Key clients

  • Interpath Advisory
  • Teneo
  • Steinhoff
  • PwC
  • Tor Capital
  • National Westminster Bank
  • KKR
  • Davidson Kempner
  • HSBC Bank
  • Barclays Bank
  • FTI
  • Citi Bank
  • JPMorgan
  • Lloyds Bank PLC
  • Cheyne
  • BAML
  • Alix Partners
  • Alvarez and Marsal
  • BAIN
  • SVP

Work highlights

  • Advised Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. on its dissolution and subsequent delisting from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (primary listing) and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (secondary listing). This process followed its €10.5bn equity and debt restructuring via a dual Dutch WHOA and English consent solicitation process.
  • Advising Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank in connection with the cross-border $3.8bn restructuring of the McDermott Group.
  • Advised Metro Bank on its £925m restructuring and new capital raise.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nicholas Le Masurier, Richard Hodgson

Other key lawyers

Rebecca Jarvis, Matt Harding, James Warboys, Euan Clarke, Susan Roscoe, Rory Conway, Chris Stevenson, Juliana Leite de Barros, Rowland Light, Liam Robinson, Damien Gomez, Max Krasner, Dionne Brown, Jason Heron