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McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP Offices

McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP
22 Bishopsgate
London
EC2N 4BQ
England
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Mark Fennessy

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+44 20 75773431 mfennessy@mwe.com

Work Department

Restructuring and insolvency

Position

Partner Mark Fennessy focuses his practice on contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters. He has particular experience in multifaceted group collapses and global insolvency issues. He has been involved in a number of high-profile assignments for banks, funds and various strategic parties.

Mark has advised on a number of complex cross border matters for creditors (including direct lenders and distressed debt funds) and sponsors and is highly skilled in the restructuring of complex structures and an expert in special situations. He has also actively led a number of complex litigation matters and has significant experience in the investigation of complex fraud cases, multijurisdictional disputes, anti-avoidance/antecedent transaction advice, corporate investigation and analysis, asset tracing, international enforcement and the development of litigation strategies.

Additionally, Mark is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and an Authorised Fixed Charge Receiver (Non-appointment taking).

View more at: https://www.mwe.com/people/mark-fennessy/

Memberships

  • International Corporate Rescue, Founder and Editor
  • Insolvency Practitioners Association, Member
  • Insol Europe, Member
  • Turnaround Management Association, Member
  • American Bankruptcy Institute, Member
  • NARA, the UK’s Association of Property and Fixed Charge Receivers, Fellow and former Council Member
  • R3: Association of Business Recovery Professionals, Fellow
  • UCL Faculty of Laws (London), Centre for Commercial Law, Advisory Committee Member
  • Britain in Europe Think-Tank, Brunel Law School

Education

Education
Joint Insolvency Examination Board, Examination, 1999
The College of Law of England and Wales, Law Society Finals, 1991
City University, London, Diploma in Law, 1989
University College London, B.Sc. (Hons), 1988

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency

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Mark Fennessy – McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP

The ‘nimble and very approachable’ team at McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP provides ‘pragmatic, commercially-minded and technically superb’ advice to a myriad stakeholders across a range of work in the contentious and non- contentious restructuring sector. Drawing upon the firm’s wider finance capabilities and US footprint, the team is particularly adept at formulating innovative solutions for stakeholders throughout the capital structure and is appreciated for its ability to handle ‘complex, multi-jurisdictional projects with ambition and creativity’. Mark Fennessy best demonstrates this solutions-oriented approach and excels ‘in successfully conducting complex and often contentious matters co-ordinating client teams and other stakeholders involved’. Fennessy co-heads the team alongside the ‘highly responsive and very knowledgeable’ Aymen Mahmoud.

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