Ms Kelly Rothwell > CMS > London, England > Lawyer Profile

CMS
CANNON PLACE
78 CANNON STREET
LONDON
EC4N 6AF
England
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Work Department

Restructuring and Insolvency

Position

Of Counsel in the Restructuring & Insolvency team

Career

Kelly Rothwell is Of Counsel in the Restructuring & Insolvency team at CMS.  Kelly has extensive experience in advising, among others, banks, funds, investors, borrowers and insolvency practitioners at all stages of financial downturns, restructurings and insolvencies.  Her focus includes advising on distressed asset sales, loan-to-own strategies, debt sales, insolvencies, cross-border restructurings, non-performing loan portfolio transactions (both buy and sell side), as well as advising on a broad range of general finance transactions.

Kelly trained at CMS and then recently spent time as sole legal counsel at an asset based lending fund in London before returning to the firm. Prior to that, as a trainee, undertook a secondment to the distressed debt trading team at Deutsche Bank, London Branch.

Languages

English

Education

2010 – LPC (with Distinction), BPP Law School, London
2009 – GDL (with Distinction), College of Law, London
2008 – BA (Hons) English Language & Literature, University of Liverpo

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency

(Leading associates)

Kelly Rothwell CMS

CMS provides ‘good, honest and trustworthy advice’ to a balanced mix of IPs, banks, corporates and funds across a range of situations throughout the distressed curve, from formal insolvencies and multi-stakeholder restructurings through to special situations mandates. Team head Martin Brown‘s own practice exemplifies this versatility, and he is consequently able to bring superb insight into deals, having been active on both creditor/investor and debtor mandates. As well as his more transactional special situations aligned work, Glen Flannery is also an extremely accomplished lawyer in relation to UK-based formal insolvencies, including acting for the Official Receiver on matters of national interest. Of counsel Kelly Rothwell is additionally recommended.