Drawing upon an ‘impressive’ breadth of expertise across formal insolvencies, corporate restructurings, special situations and distressed M&A, A&O Shearman remains a popular choice among creditors, debtors and investors in big-ticket mandates across a myriad sectors. As well as the firm’s deep substantive knowledge in the space, it is also able to effectively mobilise market-leading practitioners from complementary practice areas (including litigation, corporate and finance) across its vast network of international offices, ensuring that it is able to provide a highly co-ordinated offering spanning geographies. Led on the restructuring front out of London by team head Katrina Buckley and Joel Ferguson, this multi-disciplinary/multi-office approach is effectively showcased by the firm’s continued involvement for the administrators of Greensill Capital. As well as her conventional transactional practice Jennifer Marshall is also noted for the high-level advice she provides as a result of her thought leadership in evolving and novel areas of law. Randal Weeks is another vastly experienced practitioner who brings gravitas and commerciality to work on behalf of security agents and lenders, including banks and hedge funds. The firm also includes a number of highly-valued more junior practitioners, including Nick Lister and Nick Charlwood, who ’combines very strong technical knowledge of insolvency and restructuring law with a very commercial, deal-oriented approach’.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘The breadth of the firm's insolvency and restructuring practice is impressive and remains consistently strong across all key European jurisdictions.’
‘Nicholas Charlwood is truly exceptional, he combines very strong technical knowledge of insolvency and restructuring law with a very commercial, deal-oriented approach and he always delivers excellent client service.’
Key clients
- The administrators of Greensill Capital (UK) Limited
- Co-ordinating Committee of creditors of ED&F Man
- Creditors to Intu Plc
- Vroon Group
- Mediapro Group
- An ad hoc group of noteholders to Hong Kong Airlines
- Kroll Agency and Trustee Services in respect of Steinhoff
Work highlights
- The firm has the central legal role advising the administrators in connection with the administration of GCUK.
- Advised the co-ordinating committee of creditors representing creditors with over $1bn of debt claims and the agent in relation to the restructuring of the financial indebtedness of the ED&F Man Group and the provision of $300m new money facilities.
- A cross-border team from the firm's London and Amsterdam offices are advising the Vroon Group on its corporate and financial restructuring.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Katrina Buckley