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Lara Kahn

Lara Kahn

Global 2026

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About

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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

Chambers Review

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Chambers Global Guide

Restructuring/Insolvency - South Africa

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial

Lara Kahn is a prominent lawyer with an established reputation for her representation of distressed entities and their business 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

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  • She is especially skilled at drafting and working collaboratively to ensure the outcome is what the client wants from the firm.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Global Guide
  • For me, Lara Kahn is an absolute star. If you want somebody to fight your fight, then it's her.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Global Guide
  • Lara Kahn has strong technical knowledge, commercial understanding and offers consistently sound and practical advice, especially in complex or stressful situations.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Global Guide
  • Lara is exceptionally good technically, so whenever confronted with technical questions she is a very good person to have on your side.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Global Guide

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