Ms Amy Kennedy > Akin > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Akin Offices
EIGHTH FLOOR
TEN BISHOPS SQUARE
LONDON
E1 6EG
England
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Ms Amy Kennedy
Work Department
Partner; Corporate Finance
Position
- Focuses on acquisition finance transactions, representing private equity sponsors in leveraged buyouts.
- Drives direct lending and special situation transactions, as well as leading the finance aspects of complex restructuring transactions.
- Experience structuring a range of fund financings, as well as investment grade and corporate lending.
- Co-leader of the firm’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) group.
- Amy Kennedy structures leveraged financing arrangements for complex leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions.
Her clients include private equity sponsors, banks and other financial institutions (including non-bank alternative capital providers and direct lenders) and corporates (including client portfolio companies).
To learn more about Ms. Kennedy, visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/amy-kennedy
Education
- L.P.C., Inns of Court School of Law, 2006
- M.A., University of Oxford, 2005
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
Akin has significant traction among funds providing private capital financing solutions to distressed corporates, often working alongside the firm’s market-leading restructuring offering. Amy Kennedy is one of the main contacts for this special situations work (as is the ‘commercial-minded and responsive’ Mark Mansell) and she also has experience of advising on cutting-edge green and sustainability-linked financial products in the public and private debt markets. Other areas of note include Robert Aulsebrook‘s emerging markets prowess.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax