Ashley Katz > Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Offices

100 Bishopsgate
LONDON
EC2N 4AG
England
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Ashley Katz

Work Department
Restructuring and Insolvency
Position
Mr. Katz is a restructuring and insolvency partner resident in Fried Frank’s London office. He has extensive experience advising distressed investors, borrowers, financial institutions, bondholders and insolvency practitioners in relation to all aspects of restructuring and insolvency matters. He advises on a range of cross-border and UK restructurings and insolvencies including matters in the automotive, real estate, construction, financial services, retail and leisure sectors. Mr. Katz has lectured on a range of insolvency topics including the Eurozone crisis, cross border insolvency administration, anti-avoidance provisions, employment/ insolvency law, directors’ duties and customer insolvency.
Career
Mr. Katz joined Fried Frank in 2016.
Memberships
Mr. Katz is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association, R3 (The Association of Business Recovery Professionals) and South African Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners Association.
Education
Mr. Katz qualified with an Advanced Certificate in International Insolvency Law from the University of Pretoria in 2002, and a Diploma in Insolvency Law with a distinction (awarded Absa Bank Prize) from Rand Afrikaans University in 2000. He received his LLB and BA from the University of Witwatersrand in 1994 and 1992 respectively.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
(Leading partners)Working often in collaboration with the firm’s New York office, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP‘s compact team excels in providing bespoke ‘highly commercial’ advice on complex cross-border restructurings and insolvencies for a broad array of stakeholders. Team head Ashley Katz leads from the front and ‘excels in providing innovative solutions’, including for fund clients, which benefit from the team’s fluid multi-disciplinary approach drawing from the firm’s broader corporate, finance and litigation offerings. The ‘impressive’ Mandip Englund is a key member of the team and ‘delivers exceptional levels of client service’ to funds and IPs.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate restructuring & insolvency London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium