Jakeob Brown
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Special Situations
- Corporate & Finance
- Europe Financial Restructuring
- Credit Funds
- Oil & Gas
- Oilfield Services
- Private Capital
- Practice focuses on cross-border debt restructurings, special situations, workouts and insolvency.
- Member of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Council.
Jakeob represents ad hoc committees, hedge funds, bondholders, pension funds, institutional and secondary investors in relation to contentious and non-contentious restructurings, special situations, turnarounds and formal bankruptcy processes including associated litigation.
He has handled numerous cross-border and domestic debt restructurings and associated chapter 11 cases in the oil and gas, offshore shipping, telecommunications, insurance and financial services sectors.
- Nostrum: Counsel to the ad hoc group of noteholders on the US$1.125 billion financial restructuring of Nostrum Oil & Gas plc, an oil and gas exploration and production company operating in Kazakhstan.
- Fortenova: Counsel to Fortenova Group, a food producer and retailer in Croatia and the surrounding region, on issues arising from the existence of sanctioned Russian debt and equity holders in its capital structure.
- Seadrill: Counsel to the ad hoc group of bondholders in relation to the first financial restructuring of Seadrill Limited and on the restructuring via a Bermudan provisional liquidation and pre-pack chapter 11 of Seadrill New Finance (now called Paratus Energy) in 2022.
- Valaris: U.K. counsel to the ad hoc committee of noteholders on the US$7.1 billion financial restructuring, chapter 11 and English pre-pack administration of Valaris plc, an offshore drilling contractor.
- Noble: U.K. counsel to the ad hoc group of guaranteed bondholders in relation to the US$4 billion financial restructuring and chapter 11 of Noble Corporation plc, a U.K. offshore drilling contractor.
EducationLL.M. International and European Law, Lund University, 2012
LL.B. (Hons), University of Newcastle, Australia, 2012
B.Com., University of Newcastle, 2010
LL.M. International and European Law, Lund University, 2012
LL.B. (Hons), University of Newcastle, Australia, 2012
B.Com., University of Newcastle, 2010
Bar AdmissionsLaw Society of New South Wales, Australia
Law Society of New South Wales, Australia
- Turnaround Management Association (TMA), nextGen Professional of the Year, 2022.
- The Legal 500 UK, Key Lawyer for Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency.
- Lawyers Weekly, 30 under 30, Commercial Banking & Finance, 2016.