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Jessica Walker

Jessica Walker

UK 2026

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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 Women Enriching Business (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).

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Restructuring/Insolvency - London (Firms)

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 Guide to the Legal Profession
  • 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 Guide to the Legal Profession
  • 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 Guide to the Legal Profession

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