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Jessica Walker

Jessica Walker

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Jessica Walker advises clients on all aspects of complex, cross-border restructurings, insolvencies, and special situations.

Jessica combines 20 years’ experience with creativity and compassion to optimize outcomes and help debtors, creditors, directors, insolvency practitioners, and other stakeholders navigate:

- Distressed transactions

- Operational and financial restructuring

- Formal insolvency processes

- Restructuring plans, schemes of arrangement, and company voluntary arrangements (CVAs)

- Pensions restructuring

- Contingency planning

Jessica’s experience spans a broad range of industries, including fintech and financial institutions, energy and infrastructure, retail and automotive.

A recognized leader both in and outside the firm, Jessica serves on Latham’s Ethics Committee and WEB Committee. She is also an active member of INSOL International, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), and the Insolvency Lawyers Association.

Jessica maintains an active pro-bono practice, including representing survivors of domestic abuse in the UK through the Domestic Abuse Response Alliance (DARA).

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Restructuring/Insolvency - UK

Band 6
Band 6

Individual Editorial

Jessica Walker advises corporate borrowers, lenders and investors on restructurings, insolvencies and special situations.

Strengths

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  • Jessica makes technical work look logical and easy to navigate.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Global Guide
  • Jessica is an absolute star. She provides incredibly commercial, pragmatic advice and judgement, but also is technically very, very strong on insolvency. She can walk into a room and win them over.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Global Guide
  • Jessica is great on really complex, technical aspects. She is able to navigate very complex shareholders and stakeholders and get us to the right result.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Global Guide

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