Overview
Kevin is a solicitor in the firm's restructuring and insolvency practice, based in Hong Kong. Kevin advises on complex financial restructurings, distressed investments, enforcement options and formal insolvencies, often with a cross-border element.
Dual qualified in Australia and England & Wales, Kevin acts for a wide range of stakeholders in distressed situations, including debtors and their boards, sponsors, special situations investors, lenders, bondholders and insolvency practitioners. He regularly advises on cross-border mandates spanning Asia-Pacific, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.
Kevin began his career in Sydney, where he built a strong track record acting on high-profile restructuring and insolvency matters. During this time, he received a number of industry recognitions including Rising Star by Australasian Lawyer (2022), Excellence Award – Young Private Practice Lawyer of the Year by Australasian Law Awards (2021) and Winner (Insolvency) at the Lawyers Weekly 30 under 30 (2020). He also completed a secondment to the workout team at Standard Chartered Bank, working alongside bankers on complex, multi-jurisdictional restructurings, enforcement strategies and credit management projects in the Asia-Pacific region.
From 2022 to 2025, Kevin practised in London where he worked at a leading US firm and Linklaters, advising on big ticket, cross-border restructuring mandates involving the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. He is now based in the Hong Kong office of Linklaters, where he supports the firm’s practice in the Asia-Pacific region.
Experience
Kevin's experience includes:
- Fantasia: the company on the restructuring of its US$6.75bn indebtedness through parallel schemes of arrangement in Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands.
- LYCRA: the company on the restructuring of its US$1.33bn indebtedness.
- Travelport: the ad hoc group of priority term loan lenders on the restructuring of US$4.3bn indebtedness through an equitisation of the junior debt, partial paydown and an “amend and extend” of the priority term loan.
- VIC Properties: the ad hoc committee of bondholders on the financial restructuring of €424m pre-IPO convertible bonds, together with a new money injection and debt-for-equity swap.
- Matalan: the founder and shareholder in relation to the financial restructuring of the group’s £540m indebtedness.
- ABP: an investor on its successful acquisition, from the liquidators, of a portfolio of distressed real estate assets in Royal Albert Docks, London, through an unsecured credit bid.
- Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal: noteholders on the financial restructuring of the A$523m gilts notes via a scheme of arrangement.
- Chain Valley Collery: the first ranking secured creditor and the receivers and managers on a complex operational receivership of a coal mine in New South Wales, Australia and subsequent receivership sale with a transaction value in excess of A$350m.
- Harris Scarfe: the administrators on the restructuring of the third largest department store chain in Australia through a deed of company arrangement and creditors’ trust.
- Various special situations and distressed investments: private credit funds, distressed investors and financial institutions on credit analysis, enforcement options and contingency planning.
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