Jessica Walker

Practice Areas

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).