Mr Jonathan Leitch > Hogan Lovells > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Jonathan Leitch
Work Department
Corporate & Finance | Business Restructuring & Insolvency
Position
Partner
Career
Jonathan Leitch is a restructuring partner in our Hong Kong office.
Jonathan specialises in restructuring and special situations. He has wide-ranging experience in acting for all types of stakeholders in the restructuring and insolvency of financially challenged companies. He acts for a range of financial institutions, credit investors, insolvency office holders, turnaround specialists, hedge funds, private equity firms and corporations.
Jonathan has advised on transactions throughout the Asia Pacific region, principally Hong Kong, PRC and Singapore, and also Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and India.
Jonathan is frequently involved in cross-border matters and has experience in bond defaults (English and New York law governed) and corporate restructuring involving schemes of arrangement, as well as distressed debt sales and non-performing loan portfolio sales. He regularly advises clients on all aspects of financial restructurings, including wind-down and solvent liquidations, debt rescheduling, loan-to-own distressed investment strategies and debt-for-equity swaps, together with enforcement options and formal insolvency proceedings.
He has been involved with the restructuring of companies in a variety of sectors, including retail, property, shipping and transportation, manufacturing, energy, mining, technology, and agriculture.
Memberships
International Insolvency Institute
INSOL
Education
LLM LPC, Nottingham Law School, 1998
LLB (Hons) Law, Nottingham Trent University, 1996
Lawyer Rankings
Hong Kong > Restructuring and insolvency
(Leading partners)Advising on the full spectrum of distressed work, from formal insolvency to multi-jurisdictional bond restructurings, the Hogan Lovells team is regularly lauded as ‘fabulous’ by the international financial institutions and real estate investment groups it represents. The practice has vast experience in assisting court-appointed liquidators, often in relation to winding up petition proceedings, with practice head Jonathan Leitch being highly knowledgeable on all aspects of special situations and corporate finance issues. Chris Dobby is described as an ‘exceptional litigator’, regularly handling high-profile insolvency claims, while Derrick Lau mainly focuses on debt investments. Yolanda Lau concentrates on fraud and shareholder disputes, and Teresa Kwok is also cited as a key port of call.