UK Law and Practice Contributed by: Kate Stephenson and Zoe Stembridge, Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis has earned a distinguished inter - national reputation for its restructuring group, by achieving outstanding results on some of the most challenging, multi-jurisdictional restructurings in re - cent history. Advising on matters across all industries, the team has been among the first to implement un - precedented and unique restructuring mechanisms. Kirkland is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers in all juris - dictions in which it operates, with Chambers UK not - ing: “Kirkland & Ellis has an outstanding reputation
in the restructuring market for handling high-value cross-border cases. The firm has expertise in Euro - pean restructurings and US Chapter 11 cases. The team is able to draw on firm-wide experts in private equity, finance and high-yield bonds when advising on complex multidisciplinary matters. Its lawyers ad - vise clients on the company and creditor sides, with an impressive following of blue-chip investors. Kirk - land & Ellis continues to advise on some of the most prominent restructuring and insolvency matters.”
Authors
Kate Stephenson is a partner in Kirkland’s European restructuring
Zoe Stembridge is an associate in Kirkland’s European restructuring group and has wide-ranging experience of advising clients, including lenders, trade creditors and insolvency practitioners, in
group and has extensive restructuring and insolvency experience, including advising strategic investors, insolvency practitioners, turnaround managers, directors, debtors and creditors in all forms of national and international financial restructurings and insolvencies. She leads the European restructuring group’s technical business development initiatives, and supports the team in problem-solving on market-leading deals. This includes advising on a variety of restructuring plans, schemes of arrangement, CVAs, administrations, enforcements (including by way of appropriation) and cross-border recognition. Kate speaks regularly at restructuring and distressed investing conferences.
contentious and transactional corporate restructurings and complex bankruptcies. She has worked with lawyers globally to advise a broad client base on a variety of matters, including contingency planning, directors’ duties in times of financial distress, financial restructurings and distressed asset acquisition and disposals.
Kirkland & Ellis 40 Leadenhall Street London EC3A 2AA UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7469 2301 Fax: +44 (0)20 7469 2001 Email: Kate.stephenson@kirkland.com Web: www.kirkland.com
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