Caoimhe Kennedy
Counsel
caoimhe.kennedy@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Private Capital
Biography
- Practice concentrates on U.K. and cross-border insolvency, workouts and restructurings.
Caoimhe advises hedge funds, bondholders, bank and institutional investors on cross-border and domestic financial restructurings, workouts and insolvency.
Representative Work
- GenesisCare: Counsel to an ad hoc group of unaffiliated lenders on a potential restructuring or recapitalisation of GenesisCare, a global healthcare provider specialising in cancer treatment.
- Baxters: Counsel to a private placement noteholder on the amendments of senior secured notes issued by Baxters Food Group Limited, and refinincing of those notes.
- intu Metrocentre: Counsel to the ad hoc committee of holders on the restructuring of £485 million in notes issued by intu Metrocentre Finance plc against the intu Metrocentre shopping centre and adjacent retail park in the United Kingdom.
- Cruise & Maritime Voyages: Counsel to the sole senior lender in respect of its loans to Cruise & Maritime Voyages, a cruise line business, including in relation to security enforcement.
- Dolphin Drilling: Counsel to the largest lender on the financial restructuring of Dolphin Drilling ASA (fka Fred. Olsen Energy ASA), an offshore drilling rig company headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland.
EducationL.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2012
LL.B., Queen’s University Belfast, 2009
L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2012
LL.B., Queen’s University Belfast, 2009
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales
Recognitions
- The Legal 500 UK, Key Lawyer for Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency.
Affiliations and Public Service
- Member, Insolvency Lawyers’ Association.
- Member, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.
Speeches and Publications
- “Post Brexit European Recognition of Restructuring and Insolvency Procedures – Views from Across the Channel,” IWIRC London and IWIRC European Network Virtual Be Informed Event, April 2021.