Caoimhe Kennedy

Counsel

Areas of Focus

Caoimhe Kennedy

Counsel

caoimhe.kennedy@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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Biography
  • Practice concentrates on U.K. and cross-border insolvency, workouts and restructurings.

Caoimhe Kennedy 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.
  • Sea Trucks: Counsel to Nordic Trustee on the $600 million bond restructuring of the Sea Trucks Group, a provider of offshore installation, accommodation and marine support services to the oil & gas industry.
  • Frigoglass: Counsel to an ad hoc group of bondholders on the financial restructuring of Frigoglass, a Greek-listed glass and refrigeration business, involving a new capital injection and debt-for-equity swap implemented through a scheme of arrangement in the UK.
  • Lansbanki: Counsel to an ad hoc committee of bondholders regarding the winding up of Lansbanki, one of the three major Icelandic commercial banks that collapsed in 2008.
  • Noreco: Counsel to Nordic Trustee, on behalf of bondholders, on the financial restructuring of Norwegian-listed Noreco ASA, one of the first exploration and production restructurings following the downturn in oil prices.
  • Tensator: Counsel to the private placement noteholders on the administration sale of Tensator Group, a manufacturer of queueing barriers and systems.

Education
  • L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2012

  • LL.B., Queen’s University Belfast, 2009

Bar Admissions
  • Solicitor, England and Wales

Recognitions
  • Legal 500 UK, recognized as a '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.

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