Lara Kahn
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Provided by Lara Kahn
Practice Areas
Lara has extensive experience in business rescue and restructuring, as well as insolvency related matters. She has acted for business rescue practitioners, curators, creditors, lenders and the suppliers of post-commencement finance in a number of large and high-profile business rescues. Lara has also acted for lenders, for various restructuring advisory teams and for companies in the carrying out of informal restructures and contingency planning in a distressed debt environment.
Her expertise extends also to commercial litigation in the distressed debt and restructuring sphere. She has written a number of articles on business rescue and has participated in numerous panels discussing restructuring and business rescue related issues, both nationally and internationally.
Career
Lara's qualifications include:
LLB, University of Cape Town, 1995
BA, University of Cape Town, 1993
Admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa
Professional Memberships
Member of the Turnaround Management Association Southern Africa
Member of the South African Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners Association
Work Highlights
Named by Best Lawyers 2019 - 2023 as a leading individual
Named by Chambers Global 2017 - 2022 as a ranked lawyer
Named by Legal 500 2014 - 2017 as a legal expert (Dispute Resolution)
Chambers Review
Global
Lara Kahn is a prominent lawyer with an established reputation for her representation of distressed entities and their rescue practitioners in all aspects of business rescue proceedings. She additionally assists with the subsequent restructuring and reorganisations of companies, as well as the sale of assets, and is based in Cape Town.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lara is a well-known and respected industry expert who is considered an extremely safe pair of hands when dealing with complex contentious matters."
"She has a very sound grasp of the legal matrix relating to distressed restructuring and business rescue. She is also very solution-driven."
"Lara is a well-known and respected industry expert who is considered an extremely safe pair of hands when dealing with complex contentious matters."
"She has a very sound grasp of the legal matrix relating to distressed restructuring and business rescue. She is also very solution-driven."
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