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Restructuring/Insolvency - UK
What the Team is Known For
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has a strong restructuring practice that advises clients across the whole range of restructuring matters. The firm represents distressed investors, borrowers, directors, financial institutions and bondholders.
Strengths
The firm has a great diversified team who are always on hand to support boards in tricky scenarios and are always contactable.
The team are thoughtful, hard-working and deeply analytical, with a view towards problem-solving. There is a practical overlay to their work that makes them far superior to others.
They exceed the highest expectations.
Notable practitioners
Ashley Katz is a restructuring and insolvency partner at Fried Frank and is known for his representation of distressed investors, corporates and insolvency practitioners in cross-border challenges. He handles a wide variety of work spanning the retail, leisure and financial services sectors, among others.
Ashley has a unique combination of talent, experience and skills.
Ashley Katz is excellent and felt like a long-standing, trusted member of our own team.
I have found him to have excellent attention to detail while at the same time focusing on what needs to be accomplished.
He is really personable, enjoyable to work with and very hands-on and responsive.
Geoff O'Dea is an experienced practitioner in the London market able to act for a wide range of clients. He regularly acts for both corporates and lenders on complex restructuring and distressed transactional mandates.
Geoff's one of the best restructuring lawyers I've ever worked with. He's absolutely brilliant at being singularly focused on his client's best interests and getting what he needs out of a situation.
His calm and commercial approach to addressing complex problems in high-pressured situations is invaluable.