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Laurence Crowley

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Work Department

Business Restructuring and Insolvency

Position

Senior Counsel

Career

Laurence Crowley has many years’ experience in the insolvency and restructuring arena. Having started life with a broad range of receiverships/administrative receivers/bank restructuring cases, he soon focused on international insolvencies with considerable time spent working with overseas jurisdictions. His lead role advising the liquidators on the high-profile insolvency of Bank of Credit and Commerce International for some 22 years has resulted in him being highly regarded by all those who worked with him.The transaction itself led to many legal “firsts” in this field, not least because it took place before the introduction of many of the international cooperation frameworks, which now assist with cross-border insolvencies.  He performed a similar role for the Cayman liquidators in the long-running Polly Peck insolvency.

The nature of his work, contentious and non-contentious, has broadened Laurence’s experience beyond straight restructuring and insolvency.   

His reputation resulted in him acting for the Financial Services Authority (as it then was) in the close-down of Lehmans in 2008, and subsequently for counterparties on the Lehmans and MF Global insolvencies. More recently, he has been advising the Landsbanki Luxembourg liquidator in a complex case with cross-border issues and FBME Bank Ltd. in relation to resolution measures taken by regulators in Tanzania and Cyprus. He has also been engaged for a number of years in a broad range of work acting for a major stakeholder and related parties in a high-profile sports brand when a joint venture party became insolvent.

Languages

English, French (basic)

Memberships

He has been president of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and a member of the Insolvency Law Group of Experts consulted by the European Union on proposals for the recovery/resolution of credit institutions.

Education

B.A. (Jurisprudence), University College, Oxford

Leisure

An avid sports fan, particularly Welsh rugby.