Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Client SatisfactionDrawing upon ‘a powerful combination of legal skills and real trial experience’, litigation heavyweight Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP excels in handling cross-border contentious insolvency work for IPs and creditors. Team head Richard East is a ’superstar litigator’ who is able to elicit favourable results for clients as defendants or plaintiffs engaged in hostile restructurings, often involving complex inter-creditor arrangements and sophisticated financial documentation. The arrival in January 2024 of the vastly experienced David Ereira from Paul Hastings LLP affords the team greater bandwidth in light of his superb track record handling a range of restructuring and insolvency matters.
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- 'The fabulous contentious insolvency team has a powerful combination of legal skills and real trial experience.'
- 'Richard East is a superstar litigator. He's the lawyer you would want to put your case. He's very energetic and really fights for his clients.'
- 'Yasseen Gailani is very cerebral and calm. He's a tactician and a great litigator and a nice guy too.'
Key clients
- The Joint Administrators of JD Classics Limited (in administration). The Joint Administrators are Mark Firmin, Richard Beard and Richard Fleming of Alvarez & Marsal Europe LLP.
- Pacific Investment Management Company LLC, Anchorage Capital, L.L.C., Algebris (UK) Limited
- Phones 4U Limited (in administration)
- Galapagos Bidco SARL v Kebekus & Ors, FL-2019-000015
- The Joint Administrators of NMC Healthcare LTD (in administration in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)) (subject to deed of company arrangement)
- Redox Plc / IWG Plc
- Carillion plc (in liquidation), together with its subsidiaries in respect of which the Official Receiver has been appointed as liquidator (32 entities in total). Quinn Emanuel is instructed by the Official Receiver, via the Special Managers.
- Luigi Cimolai Holding S.p.A. and Cimolai S.p.A.
- HBK Master Fund LP; Palladian Partners LP; Hirsh Group LLP; Virtual Emerald International Limited
- The Joint Administrators of NMC Health PLC (in administration in England)
- Cimolai Group
- SoftBank Vision Funds (and their affiliates)|[Full list: SoftBank Vision Fund LP; SoftBank Vision Fund II-2 LP; SVF Abode (Cayman) Limited; SVF II Abode (Cayman) Limited); SVF Habitat (Cayman) Limited; SB Investment Advisers (UK) Limited; SB Investment Advisers (US) Inc; SVF II Wyatt Subco (Singapore) Pte Limited; SVF II Holdings (Singapore) Pte Limited]
- Certain bondholders of Signa Development Finance S.C.S.
Work highlights
- Acts for the joint administrators of NMC Health plc (in administration) and NMC Healthcare Ltd (in administration) (subject to deed of company arrangement).
- Acts for NMC Opco Ltd, the new holding company of the NMC Group, owned by the companies’ creditors, which includes some of the world’s largest investment banks and hedge funds, in connection with a fraudulent trading claim against Noor Bank PJSC under the ADGM Insolvency Regulations.
- Acting for entities within the Cimolai Group, an Italian-headquartered specialist steel construction firm, which board discovered that more than 250 highly structured, loss-making FX derivative transactions governed by English law and jurisdiction had been entered into by its former CFO with 21 counterparties, without the knowledge or approval of the board.
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Richard East