Karen McMaster > Milbank > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Milbank Offices
100 Liverpool Street
LONDON
EC2M 2AT
England
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Karen McMaster
Position
Partner, Financial Restructuring
Career
Karen McMaster assists buy side and distressed investors structure, negotiate and implement investments in distressed, stressed or special situation credits. She also has experience in all aspects of debt restructuring and reorganisation, from initial contingency planning and options analysis to the implementation and management of complex workouts.
Karen’s experience spans a range of insolvency and reorganisation tools and processes, including UK Schemes of Arrangement, Restructuring Plans and CVAs, US chapter 11 and various European reorganisation mechanisms. Karen has also represented investors on a number of direct lending and ‘special situations’ financing, often involving complex and bespoke debt instruments and intercreditor structures.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
(Leading individuals)The ‘creative and dynamic’ team at Milbank remains best-known for its creditor-side excellence on behalf of an enviable roster of funds clients, where it is able to execute ‘technical and commercially excellent’ strategies, both in and out of formal insolvency processes. Praised for its ‘ability to appreciate commercial dynamics, and push the envelope of legal documents and court processes to drive a restructuring’, this manifests itself both in the context of European or US restructuring processes. Yushan Ng, who now heads the team on his own following the recent retirement of Nick Angel, has deep market penetration among hedge fund clients, in particular, while also continuing to generate work from CLOs and traditional asset managers. Karen McMaster has deep knowledge of restructuring processes and the underlying finance products (including high yield debt, TLBs and loans), consequently she is a popular choice among clients both at a contingency planning stage and in relation to the implementation of complex workout strategies, as well as realising value through new money led solutions.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate restructuring & insolvency London > Finance
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Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Aviation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium