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Luci Mitchell-Fry

Work Department
Restructuring and Insolvency
Position
Luci has extensive experience of managing complex and challenging domestic and international corporate insolvencies and restructurings, as well as major commercial disputes and investigations arising in the context of formal insolvencies.
Her advisory practice spans the full spectrum from consensual restructuring to formal insolvency, including contingency planning (enforcement options, COMI shifts and managing counterparty risk), the use of restructuring tools (e.g. schemes of arrangement and CVAs), insolvency appointments, pre-packs and trading insolvencies, and strategic advice to stakeholders (with a particular focus on directors/officers of distressed corporates).
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Luci has been engaged in providing complex, technical and bespoke advice to boards of directors of stressed and distressed companies across a wide range of sectors and has advised confidential high-profile clients on matters relating to their response to the ongoing pandemic, particularly in the retail, international aviation, energy and rail sectors.
Recently, Luci advised Hurricane Energy Plc, the AIM-listed oil exploration and exploitation company, on its ground-breaking proposed restructuring plan with bondholders. Other notable matters include British Steel, where Luci led the cross-departmental team assisting Network Rail with contingency planning and providing strategic advice, and several confidential matters in the rail franchising arena where Luci provided complex technical and bespoke board level advice to distressed corporates, frequently in situations of strategic significance and/or with a political dimension.
Memberships
Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales
Education
Nottingham Law School, 1999
Cambridge University, 1998, LL.M.
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
- Employment > Health and safety
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- 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