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Provided by Melissa Coakley
Melissa Coakley leads the London Restructuring and Insolvency team. Melissa advises a broad spectrum of stakeholders on consensual and non-consensual cross border and domestic restructurings, work outs, reorganisations and formal insolvencies.
Melissa's commercialism, high level of technical knowledge and strategic thinking has seen her acting across sectors (including infrastructure, retail, transport, telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas, financial services, commodities), across geographies, engaging with differing regulatory environments and legal systems (including 5 years spent on secondment in the Middle East), and for a wide variety of stakeholders: corporate borrowers, funds, banks, insolvency officeholders, government, private equity sponsors and material trade creditors.
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (LLB) 2001
Joined Clifford Chance 2003
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2005
Secondment to Bank of England 2007
Secondment to Clifford Chance Dubai 2010-2015
Partner since 2020
Provided by Chambers
Melissa Coakley is respected for her ability to advise on complex cross-border restructurings. She is experienced in acting for both creditors and debtors.
Provided by Chambers
Melissa is a superstar. She is super commercial and amazing to work with. She completely gets it. She's five steps ahead all the time and understands what the clients want.
Melissa is a very, very strong lawyer. She is very commercial and knowledgeable.
Melissa is an outstanding and pragmatic lawyer.
Melissa is really hard-working and is able to give complex solutions under pressure and in a short time.
Melissa is a superstar. She is super commercial and amazing to work with. She completely gets it. She's five steps ahead all the time and understands what the clients want.
Melissa is a very, very strong lawyer. She is very commercial and knowledgeable.
Melissa is an outstanding and pragmatic lawyer.
Melissa is really hard-working and is able to give complex solutions under pressure and in a short time.