With demonstrable experience across the aviation, oil and gas, telecoms, construction and transport, maritime and shipping sectors, the team at Clifford Chance is well-placed to handle high-profile transactional and contentious mandates in the restructuring and insolvency arena, and is further supported by the firm’s robust banking and finance practice. Key clients include creditors, lenders, coordinating committees, private equity sponsors, insolvency practitioners and debtors. Shaun Langhorne, who boasts a strong track record in cross-border restructuring matters in the Asia Pacific region, jointly leads the team alongside insolvency expert Nish Shetty. Elan Krishna, a partner at Cavenagh Law LLP, the firm’s Formal Law Alliance partner, is another key contact in the group.

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Key clients

  • Aviation Capital, AerCap, Avolon, SMBC, SMFL, DAE Capital, ICBC, NAC and GECAS
  • DAE Capital, AerCap, Avolon and Castlelake
  • Asian Energy Hydro Power Pte. Ltd
  • Wilmington Trust SP Services (Dublin) Limited
  • Xebec Adsorption Inc and Xebec Adsorption Asia Pte. Ltd.

Work highlights

  • Acting on the liquidation of a marine fuel bunker company.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nish Shetty, Shaun Langhorne

Other key lawyers

Elan Krishna