Operating across the aviation, oil and gas, telecoms, construction and transport, maritime and shipping sectors, the team at Clifford Chance is well-equipped to handle high-profile transactional and contentious mandates in the restructuring and insolvency arena. The firm is also able to effectively mobilise market-leading practitioners from complementary practice areas, such as banking and finance, across its extensive network of international offices, ensuring a highly coordinated cross-border offering. Nish Shetty continues to act on some of the region’s largest and most high-profile insolvency cases. He leads the team alongside Shaun Langhorne, who has vast experience in complex, multi-stakeholder, and cross-border contentious and non-contentious restructuring matters. Elan Krishna, a partner at Cavenagh Law LLP, the firm’s Formal Law Alliance partner, is noted for his focus on arbitrations involving allegations of fraud, corruption or illegality.

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Key clients

  • Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
  • Bain Capital
  • Wilmington Trust SP Services (Dublin) Limited
  • Asian Energy Hydro Power Pte Ltd
  • Xebec Adsorption Inc and Xebec Adsorption Asia Pte. Ltd.
  • Crayhill Frontera Trade Funding DAC
  • International financial institution
  • KPMG as liquidators

Work highlights

  • Advising the Sri Lankan government on its sovereign debt restructuring.
  • Advised Bain Capital in relation to its US$250 million investment in Masan Group Corporation.
  • Advised on the potential enforcement, via the appointment of receivers, of security granted by Hong Kong Airlines over two aircraft simulators.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nish Shetty, Shaun Langhorne

Other key lawyers

Elan Krishna