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Tessa Blank

Work Department
Restructuring and Insolvency
Position
Tessa is a partner in the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. She has experience in all areas of contentious insolvency work. She also has significant experience in restructuring and non-contentious insolvency work. Tessa has advised financial institutions, Insolvency Practitioners, directors, corporate debtors and other creditors on contentious and non contentious issues, domestically and in respect of cross border matters. Her sector experience includes real estate, energy, telecommunications, rail and retail.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
(Next Generation Partners)Acting on its own as well as being able to draw upon subject matter experts across the firm’s banking, real estate, regulatory and corporate offerings, Dentons provides ‘sound and sensible advice’ to banks, IPs and debtors across the gamut of restructuring, insolvency and distressed investing. Although it does handle some cross-border mandates, the team remains best-known for its UK work, where it is able to lean into ‘first-rate technical knowledge’ across a myriad of insolvency processes, including schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans. Susan Moore, who is a name to note for contentious insolvency matters, rejoined the firm from Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath to head the team. Ian Fox has ‘tremendous experience in high-profile and demanding cases’. Tessa Blank is noted for her contentious work in the private sector as well as for government entities. Of the more junior members of the team, recently promoted partner Luci Mitchell-Fry has deep and broad knowledge, including on schemes and restructuring plans with a cross-border element, while the ‘very bright and hardworking’ Jonathan Sears excels in handling contentious matters, including for office holders and creditors.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate restructuring & insolvency London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Islamic finance
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Industry focus > TMT
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Immigration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport