LONDON, Feb. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Milbank,
Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is pleased to announce the firm has
added a significant team of four partners to its Financial
Restructuring practice in London.
One of the leading restructuring and insolvency teams in
Europe, Yushan Ng, Karen
McMaster, Sinjini Saha, who will join the firm at a later
date, and Jacqueline Ingram, bring a
wealth of expertise advising on some of the most complex and
high-profile, pan-European and transatlantic restructuring and
special situation financing matters. Yushan will serve as co-head
of Milbank's London Financial Restructuring Group alongside
established restructuring partner Nick
Angel.
"Our London office has been one of the many drivers to our
tremendous growth as a global firm over the last five years.
Expanding our financial restructuring capabilities in London is a strategic priority for us. With a
significant track record of success, the addition of these
exceptional lawyers will create one of the largest financial
restructuring practices in the London and transatlantic restructuring markets
and will further solidify our position as a global leader," said
Scott A. Edelman, Chairman of
Milbank.
Dennis Dunne, global co-chair of
Milbank's Financial Restructuring Group, added: "In recent years,
Milbank has played a key role in structuring and implementing some
of the most complex cross-border restructurings in history. Adding
Yushan's top-tier pan-European restructuring team broadens our
existing market-leading capabilities in London and the US. We are delighted to welcome
Yushan, Karen, Sinjini and Jacquie to our team and look forward to
providing our clients with a best in class offering with
unparalleled expertise on both sides of the
Atlantic."
Suhrud Mehta, co-managing partner
of Milbank's London office, added:
"This is a unique opportunity to substantially increase the depth
of our pan-European and transatlantic offering in London in one of the firm's key business
areas. Our existing London-based
restructuring practice has a track record advising on some of the
market's most innovative and complex cross-border transactions.
With this addition, we will be able to offer our restructuring
clients unrivalled breadth and depth in London. We are very excited to welcome them
into our London office."
"I am really pleased that we have managed to attract Yushan,
Karen, Sinjini and Jacquie to the firm. They have a great practice
and together we will have a bench-strength and joint CV that I
believe will be second to none," added Nick
Angel.
"We are excited about this opportunity," said Yushan Ng. "Milbank's strong platform, highly
respected restructuring group and depth of expertise in synergistic
practice areas such as leveraged finance, high yield, project/asset
finance and litigation, amongst many others, offers a tremendous
opportunity to continue to further grow our practice. The firm's
restructuring practice has had tremendous success and my colleagues
and I look forward to collaborating to build on that momentum in
Europe and globally."
Yushan Ng
With a focus on advising institutions that invest in distressed
situations or impaired credits, Mr. Ng has advised on a wide range
of some of the most complex restructurings across Europe. His practice also encompasses advising
lenders and borrowers on a range of corporate and acquisition
finance transactions. He combines his financing skillset with
practical restructuring expertise to develop and implement novel
rescue and priming loan structures, with the goal of maximizing
credit risk arbitrage for clients investing in difficult
situations. Mr. Ng graduated from Merton College, Oxford University. He also serves on the council of
the Insolvency Lawyers Association.
Karen McMaster
Ms. McMaster assists buy side and distressed investors
structure, negotiate and implement a wide range of investments in
distressed, stressed or special situation credits. She is
experienced in all aspects of debt restructuring and
reorganization, from initial contingency planning and options
analysis to the implementation and management of complex workouts
and has particular experience acting in relation to financing
arrangements which predicate some element of risk, either in terms
of structure, a background of distress, or industry type. Her work
encompasses a range of insolvency and reorganization tools and
processes, including UK Schemes of Arrangement and Voluntary
Administrations, US chapter 11 and various European reorganization
mechanisms. She graduated from the University
of Melbourne with a BA and LLB degree.
Sinjini Saha
Ms. Saha specializes in acting for private equity and distressed
financial sponsors on all aspects of their investments including
cross-border M&A, stressed and distressed investments,
loan-to-own transactions, restructurings, high yield and general
corporate and securities law matters. Dual qualified in
New York and England – she has deep experience with
financial sponsors, acting on a wider range of large scale, cross
border transactions. She received her Master of Law degree from
Columbia University School of Law and
her B.A. and LL.B. from the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India.
Jacqueline Ingram
Advising distressed investors, banks, corporates and creditor
and noteholder committees, Ms. Ingram's practice focuses on debt
restructuring and special situations financing. She has extensive
experience on complex cross-border restructurings, involving a wide
range of insolvency and reorganization processes. Her practice also
encompasses direct lending and 'special situations' financing. She
graduated from Nottingham
University and studied for the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal
Practice Course at Nottingham Law School. She has worked on
secondment in Tokyo and
Amsterdam, as well as at a leading
CLO fund.
Consistently ranked as leaders in Chambers, Legal 500,
IFLR1000, Turnarounds & Workouts, and Benchmark
Litigation, Milbank's financial restructuring practice is at
the forefront of the largest and most complex corporate
restructurings around the world, including recently advising on:
Puerto Rico, Gymboree, J. Crew,
Ultra Petroleum, Takata, Nortel, Caesars, Ocean Rig, Energy XXI,
Molycorp, Algeco Scotsman PIK, Oi, TORM A/S and General Healthcare
Group Propcos.
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